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The best of Glory with her sufferings:
By whom, I see, you labour all you can
To plant your heart; and set your thoughts as near
His glorious Mansion as your powers can bear.
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Leo. You, Sir, would help me to the History
Of half these Graves?
Priest. For eight-Score winters past,
With what I've witnessed, and with what I've heard,
Perhaps I might;..................
By turning o'er these hillocks one by one
We two could travel, Sir, through a strange round,
Yet all in the broad high-way of the world.
Author's Poem of the Brothers,
P. 245. Line 13.—"And suffering Nature grieved that one should die."
P. 245. Line 16.—"And whence this tribute? wherefore these regards?"
The sentiments and opinions here uttered are in unison with those expressed in the following Essay upon Epitaphs, which was furnished by the author for Mr. Coleridge's periodical work, the Friend; and as they are dictated by a spirit congenial to that which pervades this and the two succeeding books, the sympathizing reader will not be displeased to see the Essay here annexed.
