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POETRY.
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Line * written in a moment of great Distress . Like mine , —a complicated chain of woe , Tell me was ever mortal doomM to wear it ? If such there chance to be , 10 him Til
STO , Teil him my grief and ask him how to bear it t call upon my fortitude in vain , I call upon my reasoning powers to aid me , But reason gives new vigor to my pain , And misplac'd firmness only can mislead me .
Not one the gifts of nature more than T , Or man ' s btst attribute of reason prizes , But ah ! I feel their insufficiency , When grief or anguish like a whirlwind rises
Nought then but Resignation can op-> pose The stream of rude adversity and sorrow ; This will not only smooth it as it flows , But promise lasting happiness tomorrow .
Yet oh ! unceasingly to be distress ed Is still man ' s fate , —> fix d in this mansion dreary : Tell me !—O tell me , when shall 1 find rest , _ , Shall it be soon ? O say I for I am weary %
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lVarm From an Elegy , written on the Plain of zFonlenoy i J ? y Anna Matilda ^ 1788 . Yes , the time was , nor very far the date ,
When carnage here her crimson toil began ; When nations * standards wav'd in threat ' uing state , And man , the murd ' rer , met the murdVer man .
For war is murder , tho' the voice of kings Has styPd it justice , stylM it glary too ! Yet from worst motives , fierce ambition springs , Aud there , fix'd prejudice it all we view !
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O let the aspiring warrior think witlr grief , That as produe'd by ch ^ mic art re * find ; Si > t > litt * ring conquest , from the lau « rel-leaf , Extracts a general poison for mankind .
Nor deem , ye vain ! that e er I m ^ an to swell My feeble verse with msiny a sounding «* \ 1 \ 1 e 1 O ' such , the mercenary bard may tell , Aud call such dreary desolation , fame .
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Orison . By the Rev . Herhert Jenkins > Leicester * Blest X'Cata that »^ er the luqid deep Across the wide expanse is sheil , , And greets my eyes when freshening sleep With silken wings is gently fled . And as th' unfolding day draws on
May virtue breathe in ev ry breath , 'Till life ' s expiring gleam is gone , And darkness settles into death *
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^¦^^^ B ^ V ^ B ^ W" ^^ Address . Written by the Rev Rahn Kenned y , M . A * and spoken by M > s Edwin , imm diarely after the play of the Deaf and Dumb , acted , at the Theatre Royal f
in Birmingham , on the 27 th of August ^ 1814 , before the Duke of Devonshire ^ for the benefit of the ^ General lnstitu-, tion for the Instruct on of tJeaf and Dumb Children , of which his Grace is President .
If ye , spectators of our drama's plot , ^ Have sympathiz'd with injur ed Julio ' s lot , . ,: ; ..- v- m ^ And if your breasts have hail'd with glad applause f . Vf The warm , asserters of his righteous cause , >* " ;*> * In them behold yourselv 45 s , that hither
come , .... . . As generous patrons of the Deaf and Dumb ; >\ ? Second Master of King Edwfti ^ te Sixth's free grammar-school In ' Jn *~ mineham .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/48/
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