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Epigram On The Death Of Edward Forbes: Poem by Sydney Thompson Dobell

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NATURE, a jealous mistress, laid him low.
He woo’d and won her; and, by love made bold,
She show’d him more than mortal man should know,
Then slew him lest her secret should be told.

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