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Or l‘wcll’d her lines wih tales of real woo;

\Vhat though with joy I often tun’d my lyre,

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To drop the conflam, tributary (car 3——

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Penfive I pals the melancholy hours,

\Vhich, not fond Hope, with all her chearing pow’rs
Can ever brighten, nor that SUN reflore,

W’hieh with my MARY fet-—-ro RISE NO MORE l—-——v
Vain then is Love, the Poet’s fav’rite theme!

For Lfe’s a .flzadow—Ihppz'nefs a dream!

And all the joys that fwell our bofoms 'moll,

And all the plealure: that a world can boal’t,

Are ever on the wing, and fearee enjoy’d

Ere Death Reps in, and leaves a gloomy void!

I’d call [1266 Happinefs, by every name
thonor, pleafure, grandeur, and of fame :
In fearch of thee I’ve join’d the vicious throng,
And fwell’d the Chorus of the drunkard’s fong ;
Have often drain’d intoxication’s bowl,
And pour’d a deluge on my guilty foul l—-
For 2/266 I ventur’d on the raging main,
And crofs’d the feas where wintry horrors reign;
Have rang’d from Ball. to Well, from North to South,
And madly fought Mac at the eannon’s mouth 5
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At laft I found thee in a LOVELY WIFE!
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On which fond memory now is proud to dwell;
O’er all the vanifh’d fcenes ofhlifs to run,

And how each foul, by mutual kindnefs won,
Strove Friendfhip’s growing flame with joy to feed}
And which in pleafing each could bell fucceed,

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But ’tis too much for this fad heart to hear!

When peace return’d, when {ilenc’d war’s alarms,
And heaven ref’tor’d me to my MARY’S charms ;
Knit as we were by love’s {upcrior bands,

1 little thought when I-lymcn join’d our hands,

When Hope look’d finiling on the marriage fcene;

I little thought, that o’er the fwcet lerene,

Death’s pregnant cloud, which with dellruélion lour’d,
So foon would be on all my comforts pour’d !—--—-

I little thought, that three Ihort years ofjoy,

An infant daughter and a prattling boy,

Form’d all the happinefs I e’er {hould find

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But 0 my foul l on faith’s flrong pinions rite,
Thy Views extend beyond thefe lower flgies;
Hope, thy fure anchor through this gloom of night,
See the fair regions of eelellial light!
\Vithin the veil the ranfom’tl race behold,
Their crowns of glory, and their harps ofgold Y-q-
Seel; the tame path thol‘e blelt immortals trod,
That narrow path Hi all lead thee to thy Co n l-—--
XVhat though a mourner to the very lafl,
This dr ary \viltlernefa will foon he pail. ;
Doom’d though thou, art the ileum of life to brave:
rI‘hou too anon {halt triumph o’er the grave !
lie patient then-«on jl'lSLfS {ix thy trull ;
Soon in the grand alligmhly of the juil,
Her perlon gloritnw, and her rainient bright,
Shall thy lov’tl My»: Y greet; thy ravilh‘rl light,
Shall hail thee, welcome to the l.>lill\‘liil lhore,
“’here no rude llrohe from Death {ha

\V'here each {hall join the rapt’rous longs above,

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