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NHG-P.770.060
9 Nov 1770:43 (734)
Just Publish'd, and Sold at the Printing-Office, An Elegaic
Poem, On the Death of that celebrated divine, and eminent
servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend George Whitefield. By
Phillis, a servant girl of 17 years of age, belong to Mr. J.
Wheatley of Boston. She has been but nine years in this
country from Africa. In this extraordinary piece, is a
consolatory address to his truly noble benefactress, the
worthy & pious Lady Huntingdon, and the orphan children in
Georgia; who, with many thousands, are left, by the death of
this great man, to lament the loss of a father, friend and
benefactor.
He leave this earth for heaven's unmeasur'd height;
And worlds unknown, receive him from our sight:
There Whitefield wings, with rapid course his way,
And sails to Zion, through vast sons of day.
This excellent piece ought to be preserved for two good
reasons, first, in remembrance of that great and good man,
Mr. Whitefield, and second on account of its being wrote by
a native of Africa, and yet would have done honor to a Pope
or Shakespere. [sic]
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