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NYC.769.096
21-28 Sep 1769:1761 (1/22)
Please to insert the inclosed poem in your useful and
entertaining Chronicle, which is a translation of that
excellent Latin poem of Dr. Watts in his Horae Lyricae on
the incarnation and sufferings of our Saviour, beginning,
"Qui quondam aterna delapsus ab othere Vultus",and you'll
oblige your's etc. Z.
Descending from the heights of heaven, he came,
And took unto himself, a mortal frame
And oh! the most amazing matchless deed!
That God himself, for mortal man should bleed,
. . . [68 more lines, signed] Z.
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