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EPITAPHS.

ON THE

REVEREND MR. PENROSE,

Thirty-two years Vicar of St. Gluvias, Cornwall.

IF social manners, if the gentlest mind,
If zeal for God, and love for human kind,
If all the charities which life endear,
May claim affection, or demand a tear,
Then, o'er Penrose's venerable urn
Domestic love may weep, and friendship mourn.
The path of duty still, untired, he trod,

He walk'd in safety, for he walk'd with God!
When past the power of precept and of prayer,
Yet still his flock remain❜d the shepherd's care;
Their wants still kindly watchful to supply,
He taught his best, last lesson, how to die!

ON MRS. BLANDFORD.

MEEK shade, farewell! go seek that quiet shore
Where sin shall vex, and sorrow wound no more!
Thy lowly worth obtains that final bliss,

Which pride disdains to seek, and wit may miss.
That path thou'st found, which science cannot teach,
But faith and goodness never fail to reach;
Then share the joy the words of life impart,
The Vision promis'd to the pure in heart.

ON MRS. LITTLE,

IN REDCLIFFE CHURCH, BRISTOL.

O COULD this verse her fair example spread,
And teach the living while it prais'd the dead!
Then, reader, should it speak her hope divine,
Not to record her faith, but strengthen thine;
Then should her ev'ry virtue stand confest,
Till ev'ry virtue kindled in thy breast.
But if thou slight the monitory strain,
And she has liv'd, to thee at least, in vain ;
Yet let her death an awful lesson give,
The dying Christian speaks to all that live.
Enough for her that here her ashes rest,
Till God's own plaudit shall her worth attest.

ON GENERAL LAWRENCE,

Memorable for his conquests in India, and for his clemency to the vanquished. On a monument erected by Sir Robert Park.

BORN to command, to conquer, and to spare,
As mercy mild, yet terrible as war,

Here Lawrence rests in death; while living fame
From Thames to Ganges wafts his honour'd name.
To him this frail memorial Friendship rears,
Whose noblest monument's a nation's tears:
Whose deeds on fairer columns stand engrav'd,
In provinces preserv'd, and cities saved.

ON THE REVEREND MR. HUNTER, Who received a Degree from the University of Oxford, for his Work against Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy.

Go happy spirit, seek that blissful land

Where zealous Michael leads the glorious band
Of those who fought for truth; blest spirit, go,
And perfect all the good begun below;