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NHG-P.766.057
15 Aug 1766:43 (515)
The following Thoughts came from a Youth scarce 15.
Mess'rs Drapers, Being a spectator of the solemn funeral of
the late worthy and reverend Dr. Jonathan Mayhew, I was so
sensibly touched with the loss of this great friend to civil
and religion liberty, that I could not suppress the
following tender tho'ts.
Mayhew is gone! ah weep! Now Anglia weep!
Thy friend, thy champion, and thy dear delight,
Now lives no more!--------------------
The loss tis true is great: yet don't repine,
Wisdom unerring hath decreed it so.
See! happy with his God, above the Skies
He soars--with calm indifference
Beholds th' events of this uncertain state,
Erst, he was wont with faith and hope to speak
Of joys dunfading and exstatic [ ]:
Now, now, without alloy he tastes them all,
And of his virtues reaps the full reward.
------------------his peaceful, happy rest
Nor cares, nor fears invade, all pleasant and serene
The heavenly choir he joins, to celebrate
The praises of the great, th' eternal God.
. . . [17 more lines] Boston, July 11, 1766.
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