Some fairer prospect, though at distance, brings,
Soothes me with song, and flatters as she sings.
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SHELBURNE.
[June, 1780.]
Ah! Shelburne, blest with all that's good or great
T'adorn a rich, or save a sinking, state—
If public Ills engross not all thy care,
Let private Woe assail a patriot's ear;
Pity confined, but not less warm, impart,