An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.

Date:
1777
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >4 ] !l^ead me, Oh, lead me to forae convent’s gloom, There may’fl; thou live my vlfionary theme ; There let me ever weep thy early doom. And ever find thee in the plealing dream. There let me fee thee hand in full array. With filver glories round thy crimfon head ; Let me in fweet idea die away. Supremely blefs’d—-and moft fupinely fpread. Lead me, Oh,lead me to the holy Ihrine, Let all the God rufti ga.yly on my breaft ; Inftead of mortal-—be my joys divine, “ Give :all thou ranft—rand I will dream the reft.” - low,-to contain oil, that the votary might inflame the image—-with which Ihe was inflamed, Thefe were the facred llatues of the temple of the Bona Dea^ 'She