ELIJAH FENTON.
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An EPITAPH
On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON,
At Eaſt-Hampſtead in Berks, 1730.
This modeſt ſtone, what few vain marbles can,
May truly ſay, here lies an honeſt man:
A Poet, bleſs’d beyond a Poet’s fate,
Whom Heav’n kept ſacred from the proud and great:
Foe to loud praiſe, and friend to learned eaſe,
Content with ſcience in the vale of peace.
Calmly he look’d on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear;
From nature’s temp’rate feaſt roſe ſatisfy’d
Thank’d Heav’n, that he had liv’d, and that he died.
Barton
