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May autumn come wi £ h soften'd grace ; And mild unruffled wing ; p reserving in thy fading face ) The innocence of spring .
So shall thy winter hours be cheer d With all that virtue lends , When ( by long truth and worth endear'dj ) She points to faithful trie rids . And when life ' s latest pow ' r hath fled , As thy freed spirit Aies , Thy children ' s arms shall be thy bed , And angels close thine eyes . A . M , P .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir . The following Epitaph may probably suit your poetical department . It is placed over the grave of a respectable scholar , who , I dare say , will be vvell recollected by several of your readers . He was buried at Sible Hedingham , Essex , where he died , while on a visit to a friend , Your ' s R » C »
IN MEMORY OF THE REV . BAXTER COLE , * Who died Oct . 13 , 1794 , aged 66 . —This Stone is erected by the grateful affection of his surviving kindred . Say , musing stranger , was thy studious youtfc By virtue guided to the shrine of truth ; O ' learning ' s varied region hast thou trod , Or " lookM through nature up to nature ' s God ;" -And as thy weary steps to age decline , Arc still the Christian ' s hopes and duties thine : Then here respectful pause , for ihou canst know , His woith whose ashes rest awhile below .
? A Dissenting minister , educated among the Independents . He did not possess popular talents as a preacher , but was a person of considerable learning , and had paid great attention to the phraseo ' ogy of the New Te tament . In Jtiis latter years he was considered by his intimate friends , as almost , if not a together , an Unitarian . He is chiefly known to the public by the complete edition of the Works of JLardncr , which he arranged and conducted through the press .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/38/
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