<49 |»ISC£LLANEOUS POEMS. To an amiable Friend, Mourning the DeatH 9/ an excelUm Fathbi^ X^ET deep deje£lion hide her pallid face. And from thy bread each painful image rafe ; Forbid thy lip to utter one complaint. But view the glories of the rifing laint, Ripe for a crown, and waiting the reward <Of watching long the vineyard ofhis Xord.* The ^nerous purpofe (if his zealous heart. Truth to enforce, andlcnowledge to impart, 'Infures his welcome on fhc unknown fliore V^here choirs of faints, and angel forms adore : .A feraph met him on (he tracklefs way. And (Irung his harp to join the heavenly lay. Complain no more of Death's cxtenHvo power, Whofe foeptre ivafts us to fome tiliftful fliore. Where the rough billows that roll o'er the head. That fliake the frame, and fill the mind with dmd. Are huA'd in (ilence, and the foul ferene Xooks back delighted on the doling fcene. Happy, thrice happy, that exalted mind. Who, leaving earth and all its cares behind, Has not a wi(h to ruffle or contr<d > The equal temper of bis tranquil foul-^ W^ho, on a retrofpe6t, is fafe within, JNfo private pafSon, nor a darling (in, vCan check his hope, when death's infatiate power Stands hovering on the laft dedfinre hour* Thia ^ The fenfcleman aUtt4c4 to, was a clergymtn .of^iftlnguiibed d by Google
