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CUTHBERT SHAW.

Ravensworth, Yorkshire. 1738—1771.

The Monodies of this writer upon his Wife and Child are well known. What other misfortunes he suffered besides their deaths, were occasioned by his own follies and vices. His first poem was published under the name of W. Sey

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An Evening Address to a Nightingale,.

SWEET bird! that kindly perching near,
Pourest thy plaints melodious in mine ear,
Not, like base worldlings, tutor'd to forego
The melancholy haunts of woe,

Thanks for thy sorrow-soothing strain :-
For surely, thou hast known to prove,

Like me, the pangs of hapless love,

Else why so feelingly complain,

And with thy piteous notes thus sadden all the grove?

Say, dost thou mourn thy ravish'd mate,

That oft enamour'd on thy strains has hung?