An Elogy to the Memory of the late Wm. Palgrave, Esq., with Other Pieces

by James Parkerson

Transcribed from the early 1800’s edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.

AN ELOGY
to the
Memory of
the late
Wm. PALGRAVE, Esq.
with
OTHER PIECES. [1]

By Jas. PARKERSON, Jun.

PRICE 1s.

[walker, printer, norwich.]

TO THE MEMORY
of
William Palgrave, Esq.

late of
COLTISHALL,
IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK.

In passing through this vale of tears,
That various scenes display;
Ambition oft her standard rears,
And mortals lead astray.

The anxious merchant counts his gain
From vessels on the sea;
They’re lost upon the watery main,
And all his prospects flee.

Dejection seize his harrass’d mind,
While struggling with dispair;
Dame Fortune smiles and proves more kind,
His spirits for to cheer.