First Line	As those we love decay, we die in part
Author	James Thomson
Description	Epitaph [Death, afterlife; Friendship]. Transcribed from Thomson, James. "Verses Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Aikman, a particular Friend of the Author's." Poems on several occasions. By James Thomson, 1750, p. 5. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE\|CW0114295665.
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Transcription

As those we love decay, we die in part,

String after string is sever'd from the heart;

Till loosen'd life, at last, but breathing clay,

Without one pang is glad to fall away.

Unhappy he, who latest feels the blow,

Whose eyes have wept o'er ev'y friend laid low,

Dragg'd ling'ring on from partial death to death,

Till, dying, all he can resign is breath.

Beinecke Osborn c163

Title	Untitled
Period	1761-1790
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

p. 22.

Local title: Verses occasioned by the death of a particular friend of the author.

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Beinecke Osborn c391

Title	Untitled
Period	1761-1790
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

pg. 64

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Beinecke Osborn fc185

Title	Gleanings in prose and verse, selected by Jo [...]
Period	1791-1820
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

pp. 107

Local title: A Thought on Death

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Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14

Title	Poetry Selected and Orginal, 1788 & 1789
Period	1761-1790 , 1791-1820
Archive	Bodleian Library

f. 25.

Local title: Epitaph.

Attributed author: Thomson.

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Clark MS 2008.023

Title	I: "Poems extracted from Several Authors. Wi [...]
Period	1761-1790
Archive	Clark Library

vol. 3 p. 12

Local title: On The Death Of A Friend. By the same.

Attributed author: Jas. Thompson

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