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' The following beautiful lines by Mrs . Wright , seem to have been a mere extempore effusion , poured out from the fulness of her heart on the occasion , and sharpened with the keen anguish of distress . * A Mother 8 Address to her Dying Infant . Tender softness ! infant mild ! Perfect , purest , brightest child ! Transient lustre ! beauteous clay ! Smiling wonder of a day ! Ere the last convulsive start Rends thy unresisting heart ; Ere the Joag enduring swoon Weig-h thy precious eyelids down ; Ah ! regard a mother ' s moan , Anguish deeper than thine own . Fairest eyes , whose dawning light Late with rapture blest my sight , Ere your orbs extinguished be , Betid their trembling beanos on me . Drooping sweetness ! verdant flow ' r ! Blooming , with e ring-, in an hour . Ere thy gentle breast sustains Latest , fiercest , mortal pains , Hear a suppliant ! let me be Partner in thy destiny ! That whene ' er the fatal cloud Must thy radiant temples shroud ; When deadly damps , impending now , Shall hover round thy beauteous brow , Diffusive may their influence be , And with the blossom blast the tree I
* This was composed during her confinement , and written from her mouth by her husband , who sent it to Mr . John Wesley . The original letter sent with these verses was in Dr . Clarke ' s possession , who says , " It is a curiosity of its kind , and one proof of the total unfit ness of such a slender and uncultivated mind ,
to match with one of the highest ornaments of her sex . 1 shall give it entire in its own orthography , in order to vindicate the complaints of this forlorn woman , who was forced to accept in marriage the rude hand which wrote it . It is like the ancient Hebrew , all without points . " ' * To the Revd . Mr John fVesley Fellow in Christ Church College Oxon . Dkar Bro : This comes to Let you know that my wife is brought to bed and is in a hopefull way of Doing well but the Dear child Diedthe Third day after it wai born- —which has been of great concern ©
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/31/
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