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It was ai > April-day ; and Witbely all The youth of nature lefcp'd beneath the sun , And promis ed g lorious manhood ; and our hearts Were glad , ana round them danced the lightsome blood , / n healthy merriment , when tidings came , A child was born ; and tidings came again , That she who gave it birth was sick to death , So swift trode sorrow on the heels of joy !
We gather ed round her bed * and beat our knees In fervent supplication to the Throne Of Mercy , and perfunVd our prayers with sighs Sincere , and penitential tears , and looks Of self-abasement ; but we sought to stay An angel on the earth , a spirit ripe For heaven ; and Mercy , in her love , refus ' cf ,
Most merciftil , as oft , when seeming least ! Most gracious when she seemM the most to frown The room I well remember , and the bed On which she lay , and all the faces too , That crowded dark and mournfully around . Her father there and ~ mother , bending , stood ,
And down their aged cheeks fell many drops Of bitterness . Her husband , too , was there , And brothers , and they wept : her sisters , too , Did weep and sorrow , comfortless ; and I , Too , wept , though not to weeping given ; and all Within the house was dolorous and sad .
This I remember well : but better still 1 do remember and will ne ' er forget , The dying eyej That ey $ alone was bright , And brighter grew , as nearer death approached . — She made a sign To bring her babe— 'twas brought , and near her placed She looked upon its face , that neither smiled Nor wept , nor knew who gaz'd upon't : and laid Her hand upon its little breast , and sought For it , with look that seem'd to penetrate The heavens , unutterable blessings ; such As God to dying parents only granted , For infants left behind them in the world .
' God , keep my child ! ' we heard her say , and heard No more . The Angel of the Covenant Was come , and , faithful to his promise , stood Prepar ed to walk with her through death ' s dark vale . " Pp . 178 , 179 . I cannot forbear adding-to the above , the beautiful lines on Happiness ;
' True happiness had no localities . No tones provincial , no peculiar gart > j Where Duty went , she went ; with Justjce went , And went with Meekness , Charity , wA Lrtwe . Where ' er a tea * v ? a » < kM , a wounded heart Bound up , a bruised spirit with the dew Of sympathy anointed , or a pang Of honest suffering soothed , of inj ury Repeated oft , as oft b y Love forgiven \ Where'er an evil passion was subdued ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/22/
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