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Patterns of Piety and heavenly love,
Together may they seek the things above;
And while confin'd on earth may they aspire,
To gain with seraphs in their heavenly choir
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May circling years their happiness increase
And when at long their days on earth must cease
Blest be their passage and [?] their way
To the bright mansions of eternal day.

A Paraphrase in the foregoing line
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Great source of joy my prayer attend,
The heartfelt language of a friend;
May this blest pair in wedlock fetter'd,
Find their condition greatly better'd.
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O guide them through life's maze entang'ling,
Keep them from quarrelling and wrangling;
May piety their [?] adorning,
Render them happy every morning.
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May every pleasure they delight in,
To heaven their ardent love exciting;

A Reflection
Soon shall this troubling heart forget to beat,
And ever silent, in my bosom lie;
This breast no more retain its gental heat,
Nor thrill with joy, nor heave with misery's sigh.
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These eyes that oft with sparkling pleasure well,
Shall [ope?] no more to hail the rising day;
These lips that speak the language of the soul,
In silence seal'd no more my thoughts [convey?]
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These limits that now with animation prove,
Their wanted elasticity [resign'd?];
These ears no longer hear the voice of love
Nor to the plaint of wretchedness [inclined?].
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Where once in life my breath I lightly drew,
When few succeeding years have roll'd away;
The more [?] [store?] alone shall bring to view,
The name of one long moulder'd in to the day,
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O may these awful thoughts my soul alarm,
That e'er grim death my footsteps shall arrest;
I may prepare the tyrant to disarm,
And soon on high to be forever blest.