The Epitaph.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth
A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown:
Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send:

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear,

He gain'd from heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.

No farther seek his merits to disclose,

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,

(There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.

9 FE69

Stanza's

wrote

in

a

Country Church-Yard.

The Curfen tolls the Knell of parting Day,
The lowing Herd wird slowly sex
ver the des
The Clowman homeward plods his

And Caves the Nord

weary Kay,

Darkness &c. to

me.

Row fades the glimming Landscape on the sight,

And

now the dir

A

Save, where the

now diruck

solemor Stillness hotos:

Beetle wheels

;

Froning Flight,

Or drowgy Sinklings lill the distant Soldes.

Save, that from gonder ivy-mantled Tower

as

Omul does to
does

wahdring near

Moon, complain

her secret Bower

The mopeing that too
Of such
Molis Videncient solitary Reign.

Beneath those rugged Ums, that

the Surf in many

Where heaves
Each in his
The rude Forefathers of

narrow

of the

for

lewtree's Shade,
a moudring Leap,
Gented

ber, laid
pramieteep.

sleep the breezy Call of Morn,

from the

Swallow twittering frill of echoing down Or Chaunticleer

the strawbuilt Shed,
for from their lowly Bed.
more. the blageing Mearch shall burn,

shall rouse

their Jeam & field Drive the heir sturdy Stroke. chondition mock their useful Soil homeey

obscure:

Their rustic Sous
For Grandeur
The short

simple damals of the Coor.

be Annals

Brast of MavaDry the fo

Cower

Comp
Beauty, all that Wealth, ser gave
Semy of

find all, that
Awaits jelike f
Awaits slike the inevitable Mour

of Glory lead but

to the Grave.

Ingive, ge Proud, ch'involuntary Fault,

If ellemory is

Where thro

Es these

the

raise,

these no Irophies Long-drawn de, & frettad. Vault
sroell's the slote of Preise,

The pealing Anthem

Can Can storied Won, or

Back to its

Uon, or animated, Bust.
Mansion call the fleeting Breath?

they

Can Honour's Voice awake the silent Dust,

Or Flattery sooth the dull cats ear of Death?

is laid

Perhaps in this neglected Spot is

with celestial dire,
night have

once pregnant n

Some Heart,
Hands, that the Reins
Or waked

Some

2.

3.

to

of Empire might

have swayd,

Empiring niatyre
Ecstasy the living. Lyra:

Village

porovoke

Dauntless Breast

with Dauntles

Syrunt of his bields mute inglorious, Jully here

Casar,

withstood;

quiltless of his Country's

may rest;

Knowledge to their Eyes her ample Pages

But Knowledge to their

Rich with the

Virtues but their Crimes confined;

wade thro Slaughter to

And shut the Gates of Hercy

a

Throne,

Mankind

The struggisings Bangs of conscious Fruth zu ände, quench th the Blushes of ingenuoris Shama,

And crown de

at With

Incense

thrine of Luxury be forde

hallore deyin the Muse's Flame.

kindledes at

The shougheless vores es Majesty may bow

Exalt
But

the brave, ໔

more

to

Innocence,

Iwe

thaer Safety Than verse Centres iese conspired to bless

And thou, whe mindful of Ene unhonour-d Dead

Hark how the sacrés Calm that broods around

whispersion

cease

Bids ev'ry pierce tumultuous, Passion
In still small Accents, whisp ring
A grateful Earnest of eternal Peace

29 from

the Ground

with Reason be thysely at strife.

Give anxious thre

But

(Pursue

Cares

endless Wisher

the cool sequester)

Wishes
Vale of

rom

of Lifen

the silent senour of the doom.

Far from the massing Crowds ignoble Strife;
Their sofer Wishes nove
ng the coal requested vale of Lifetray:

nover knew, to,

the silent fenour of their. 90

They kept the

way

Insult to protect

Yat even these sense.
Somvichfrait
Some frail Memorial still crecies nigh

of ligh.

theoutly whima, & shapeless Seviveure, decht thesor Name their "Years, spelt by the unletter & Muse

a

The Place of Jame, de Epitaph supples.

And many
That teach the rustic

holy Sext around, the strews
mancha boty the stren

For who
Prey
This pleasing
residen
Left the warm Precincts of the chearful Dayji
Look behind?

Nov

cart

one

longing lingating