The Earl's Answer, written extempore.
18th Century Mary Barber EnglishThe Earl's Answer, written extempore.
Nor Bath, nor Tunbridge, can my Lays inspire; Nor radiant Beauty make me strike the Lyre: Far from the busy Croud I sit, forlorn; And sigh in secret, and in Silence mourn: Nor can my Anguish ever find an End; I weep a Father, and have lost a Friend.