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ith # pfinces of Edom in terror shall quake , fi > The knees of thy mighty men , Mo&b , shall sfaike , Thy sons , Palestina , droop hopeless in woe , And Canaan \ nelt from His presence as snow *
Thou hast rescued Thy people from slavery * s yoke , Thy mercy the chain of their vassalage broke ; Thou wilt lead them triumphant thro' deserts and seas , To the land fix'd as theirs iii Thy changeless decrees—The land of long- promise , where , placing thy throne , Thou reignest Almighty , and reignest alone !
The horse and the rider are cast in the sea , And Israel , escaped from her bondage , is freemfehovah has conquered—to Him I will raise ^ ' The song that bursts forth from my heart in His praise . J « B . Rotherham , February 3 , 182 * 6 .
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This morn , dear Emma . ! swiftly too , I ween , Advance the promis'd hours of gay nineteen , And soon—may Heav ' n indulge a parent ' s prayer—Shall woman ' s honour ed duties be thy care . Full many a sun has pour'd the morning ray , Since last my verse would hail thy natal day :
And now , or ere life ' s ev * ning shades prevail , Ere memory sleep , and thought and language fail , Fain would I ask , once more , the rhymer ' s art , A father ' s favourite wishes to impart , That woman , matron , friend , each dear relation , To thee be , Heav ' n-endow'd , a blest vocation ,
Till Time present thee , virtuous , kind , and sage , The guicV , the exemplar of another age . j . t . a
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Samuel Parkes , Esq . [ Mon . Repos . XX . 752 . ] Mr . Samuel Paukes was the eldest son of Samuel and Hannah Parkes , of Stourbridge , in Worcestershire , and was born there on the 26 th of May , 1761 . At the age of five years he was sent to a preparatory schooJ in the town , and during the time of his daily attendance at this infant seminary , Mr . Kemble ' s company of itinerant performers were at
Stourbridge , and played in a capacious barn to a large auditory ; the success of the company being great , they staid in the town several months , and Mr . KembJe sent his daughter to the same school . This child was afterwards the celebrated Mrs . Siddons . At the age of ten , he was sent to a school kept by the Rev . Stephen Addingtou , at Market Harbo-
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ISft Obituary : —Samuel &arke& Msht .
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VERSES To a Daughter on the completion , j&f her Eighteenth Year *
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rough , in the county of Leicester . For this gentleman Mr . Parkes always expressed strong f 6 elings of respect and obligation for the instructions he had received from him , but how long he remained with him does not appear ; but when removed from school , he returned home and was in his father's business , that of a grocer , till he settled for himself . In 1790 , while living at Stourbridge , Mr . Parkes was active in
establishing a public library in the town , and was the president for some years ; about the { tame time he was engaged in the management of the erection , of a chapel for Unitarian worship ; indeed he always felt a lively interest for the \ ayelfare of his native place . About the year 1793 , -Mr . Parkes went to reside at Stoke upott Tretot , where he began business ^ afr a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/56/
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