96 Anne Bradjf reefs Worlds.
��Should all "with lowly Congies Laurels bring, AVafte FJoraes Magazine to find a wreathe; Or Pine7is Banks 'twere too mean offering, Your Mufe a fairer Garland doth bequeath To guard your fairer front; here 'tis your name Shall ftand immarbled; this 3'our little frame Shall great Colojfiis be, to your eternal fame.
rie pleafe my felf, though I my felf difgrace. What errors here be found, are in Errataes place.
J. Rogers.*
- These verses were not in the first edition. Their author was the son
of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, of Ipswich. He was born in England in 1630, and came to America, with his father, in 1636. He graduated at Harvard College in 1649, and studied both divinity and medicine. He preached at Ipswich for some time, but afterwards devoted himself alto- gether to the practice of medicine. In 16S2, he succeeded the Rev. Urian Oakes as President of Harvard College. He died suddenly, July 2, 16S4, the day after Commencement, during an eclipse of the sun. He had re- quested, in the previous December, that the Commencement exercises should be held a day earlier than usual, as he feared the eclipse might inter- fere with them. — Mather Papers. Cotton Mather says, " He was One of fo fweet a Temper, that the Title oi Delicice humani Generis might have on that Score been given him ; and his Real Piety fet oif with the Accom- plifhments of a Gentleman, as a Gem fet in Gold." — Magnalia, iv. p. 130.
His wife, Elizabeth Denison, was the only daughter of Major-General Daniel Denison and Patience Dudley, and therefore Mrs. Bradstreet's niece.
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