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ERE yet the morn its lovely blushes spread,
See Sewell number'd with the happy dead.
Hail, holy man, arriv'd th' immortal shore,
Though we shall hear thy warning voice no more.
Come, let us all behold with wishful eyes
The saint ascending to his native skies;" (John Wheatley, On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell)
The audience of this passage can best be described as:

general

the author herself

specific to a holy man

specific to those who knew Sewell

Respuesta :

specific to people who knew sewell 
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Answer:

The correct choice here is D)

the audience must have known Sewell and here is why:

Explanation:

The elegy in the second sentence clearly mentions Sewell (the name of a person) and we know that he just dies by the penultimate and the last line:

"Come, let us behold with wishful eyes The said ascending to to his native skies"

Elegies are poems or songs of reflection, lamentation and praise for someone who has kicked the bucket.

Cheers!

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