Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett · Chapter 18Epitaph on Claude Phillips,[1

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An Itinerant Musician

Phillips! whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love, Rest here; distress'd by poverty no more, Find here that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

[Footnote 1: 'Claude Phillips:' a Welsh travelling fiddler, greatly admired.]

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