The Foundlings.
An Elegy.

Far from the madding Tumults of the Town,

Which where bright thought should reign usurp the seat;

Far from those Tempests which Reflection drown,

I seek with breathless Haste a calm Retreat.

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An anonymous imitation, published in quarto, by William Flexney, London. 1763.


An Evening Contemplation
in a French Prison:
Being a humble Imitation of Gray’s Elegy in a Country
Church Yard
.
By H. P. Houghton,
Now an English Prisoner at Arras in France.
London. J. Burditt. 1809.

The Sun’s bright orb, retiring, dimly glares,