Verses on Various Occasions
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217414838
Paperback|9780217414838
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. TO F. W. N. A EIETHDAY OFFEBING. Deae Frank, this morn has usher'd in The manhood of thy days; A boy no more, thou must begin To choose thy future ways; To brace thy arm, and nerve thy heart, For maintenance of a noble part. And thou a voucher fair hast given, Of what thou wilt achieve, Ere age has dimm'd thy sun-lit heaven In weary life's chill eve; Should Sovereign Wisdom in its grace Vouchsafe to thee so long a race. My brother, we are link'd with chain That time shall ne'er destroy; Together we have been in pain, Together now in joy; For duly I to share may claim The present brightness of thy name. My brother, 'tis no recent tie Which binds our fates in one, E'en from our tender infancy .The twisted thread was spun;? Her deed, who stored in her fond mind Our forms, by sacred love enshrined. In her affection all had share, All six, she loved them all; Yet on her early-chosen Pair Did her full favour fall; And we became her dearest theme, Her waking thought, her nightly dream. Ah brother, shall we e'er forget Her love, her care, her zeal ? We cannot pay the countless debt, But we must ever feel; For through her earnestness were shed Prayer-purchased blessings on our head. Though in the end of days she stood, And pain and weakness came, Her force of thought was unsubdued, Her fire of love the same; And e'en when memory fail'd its part, We still kept lodgment in her heart. And when her Maker from the thrall Of flesh her spirit freed, Nor suffering 'companied the call, ?In mercy 'twas decreed, ? One moment here, the next she trod The viewless mansion of her God. Now then at length she is at rest, And, after many a woe, Rejoices in that Saviour blest, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217414838 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217414834 |
| Weight | 1.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 374 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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