“Poor pitied youth! …
Bring fragrant flowers, the whitest lillies bring,
With all the purple beauties of the spring;
These gifts at least, these honours I'll bestow
On the dear youth, to please his shade below.”

— Christopher Pitt

Book VI, line 1259
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

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English poet 1699–1748

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