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NHG-P.771.059
25 Oct 1771:23 (784)
Boston, October 21. Yesterday died here in the 55th year of
her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Pitts, Consort of the Hon. James
Pitts, Esq; and daughter of the late Hon. James Bowdoin,
Esq; deceased. . . [12 lines]
Safe is she lodg'd above these rolling sphere;
The baleful influence of whose giddy dance
Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath.
Here teems with revolutions ev'ry hour--
Each moment has its sickle, emulous
Of time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep
Strikes empires from the root; each moment plays
His little weapon in the narrower sphere
Of sweet domestic comfort, and cuts down
The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss.'
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