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

Author: James Parkerson

Release Date: August 17, 2010 [eBook #33457]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ELOGY TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE
WM. PALGRAVE, ESQ.***

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}

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_By Jas. PARKERSON_, _Jun._

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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.

Such is man's losses--varied lot,
To-day he counts his store,
To-morrow breathless on the spot
He pac'd the day before.

Let those who wish thro' life's short span,
In heaven's path to move;
Copy the late departed man,
Whom Death has call'd above.

Upon his word you might depend,
Experi