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to the
M E
O R Y
of
The Rev. JOHN
Who departed this Life, March 2, i 79 r?
In the Eighty-eighth Year of his Age.
H AIL, awful Shade !--•prophetic Ghoft, all hail!
Farewell thy Labours—and their Lofs-^-farewell.
Gone—yet not dead^~Thy Memory (till fhall live,
While Time, and Truth, and Gratitude, furvive.
Deep in their Breafts, whom Mercy gives to fee,
What Love referves for them fhe loves like Thee*
Thy foul at reft,—thy griefs no more fhall feel
The ftabs of Envyi or the ftings of Zeal:
Thy hoary hairs brought down in peace (hall ileep,
Where forrow fmiles, and grief forgets to weep;
Where they repofe, who here no reft could find,
From bigot-hands, or vizor d hearts unkind.
Safe from them all,—thy heart no longer pain'd,
Thy feelings tortur'd, or thy honour ftain'd,
Thy Self art gone—and more than Self above-,
Abforpt in rapture—as ahfolEd in love.
Eternal Meed ! that waits the righteous dead :
When the vaft weight fhall load the Martyr's head,
Then fhall thy labours and their charge be own'd,
Thy worth acknowledge, and thy temples crown'd!