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"Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/SmitCElegi. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
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On a Stone, in the Church‐Yard at Boreham, in Essex; raised by the Honourable Elizabeth Olmius, to the memory of Ann Gardner, who died at New Hall, after a faithful Service of Forty Years.
WHATE'ER of praise, and of regret attend The grateful servant, and the humble friend,Where strict integrity and worth uniteTo raise the lowly in their Maker's sight,
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Are her's; whose faithful service, long approved,Wept by the mistress whom through life she loved.Here ends her earthly task; in joyful trustTo share the eternal triumph of the just.
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