Upon Young Mr. Rogers, of Gloucestershire. Elegies and Epitaphs. John Dryden. 1913. The Poems of John Dryden

John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913.

Elegies and Epitaphs

Upon Young Mr. Rogers, of Gloucestershire


OF 1 gentle Blood, his Parents only Treasure,
Their lasting Sorrow and their vanish’d Pleasure.
Adorn’d with Features, Virtues, Wit, and Grace,
A large Provision for so short a Race:
More mod’rate Gifts might have prolong’d his Date,	5
Too early fitted for a better State:
But, knowing Heav’n his Home, to shun Delay
He leap’d o’er Age, and took the shortest Way.

Note 1. Text from the Miscellanies, 1704. [back]