Meditation [in verse] on the top of Arthur's Seat ... occasioned by ... the death of ... the Princess Charlotte of Wales. 1st May 1818 / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
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1818]
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Credit: Meditation [in verse] on the top of Arthur's Seat ... occasioned by ... the death of ... the Princess Charlotte of Wales. 1st May 1818 / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1st may 1818* MEDITATION ON THE » .« < ■, ‘ Top of Arthur's Seat, a high Hill near Edinburgh, occa¬ sioned by a late melancholy event, the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales. “ The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate: Our understanding traces them in vain. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search; Nor sees with how much art the windings turn. Or where the regular confusion ends/* Not many months have pass’d since on this hill* I hail’d the Nuptials of the Royal Fair \ In sacred wedlock join’d, to him she lov’d ; I vainly hoped, that Charlotte’s race would reign Thro’ long succeeding years, and on the eve