O fairest of all creation, last and best
Of all God’s works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,
Defaced, deflow’red, and now to death devote?
This work has the following connections with other works:
- The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer • Milton parodied by Burns in epigraph "Dearest of distillation! last and best — / — How art thou lost!"
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