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To wail her sons: The house, that should protect
Entombs his master; and the faithless plain,

If there he flies for help, with sudden yawn.

Starts from beneath him. Shield me, gracious Heav'n,
Oh, snatch me from destruction! If this Globe,
This solid Globe, which thine own hand hath made
So firm and sure, if this my steps betray;

If my own mother Earth, from whence I sprung,
Rise up with rage unnatural to devour
Her wretched offspring, whither shall I fly ?
Where look for succor? Where, but up to thee
Almighty Father? Save, oh, save thy suppliant
From horrors such as these. At thy good time
Let DEATH approach; I reck not-let him but com
In genuine form not with thy vengeance arm'd,
Too much for Man to bear. Oh, rather lend
Thy kindly aid to mitigate his stroke,
And at that hour when all aghast I stand,
(A trembling candidate for thy compassion)
On this world's brink, and look into the next;
When my soul starting from the dark unknown
Casts back a wishful look, and fondly clings
To her frail prop, unwilling to be wrench'd
From this fair scene, from all her custom'd joys,
And all the lovely relatives of life,

Then shed thy comforts o'er me; then put on
The gentlest of thy looks. Let no dark crimes.
In all their hideous forms then starting up

Plant themselves round my couch in grim array,
And stab my bleeding heart with two edg'd torture,
Sense of past guilt, and dread of future woe.
Far be the ghastly crew! And in their stead

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Let cheerful Memory from her purest cells
Lead forth a goodly train of Virtues fair,
Cherish'd in earliest youth, now paying back
With tenfold usury the pious care,

And pouring o'er my wounds the heav'nly balm
Of conscious innocence. But chiefly, THOU,
Whom soft ey'd Pity once led down from Heav'n
To bleed for Man, to teach him how to live,
And, Oh! still harder lesson! How to die,
Disdain not THOU to smooth the restless bed
Of Sickness and of Pain. Forgive the tear
That feeble Nature drops, calm all her fears,
Wake all her hopes, and animate her faith,
'Till my rapt Soul anticipating Heav'n
Bursts from the thraldom of incumbring clay,
And on the wing of ecstacy upborne,

Springs into LIBERTY, and LIGHT, and LIFE.

FINIS.

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PRINTER, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,

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