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EPITAPH, ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUTH,
(Designed for a Tomb-Stone.)
“Death (deem'd abrupt) sits on my mortal frame;“But can aught fall as sudden from a God?
“Does not his pitying eye in mercy view
“Man in his swift progression? What avails
“The early year, or date of lengthen'd age?
“Merely to live, boasts a Creator's hand,
“And life's first moment stamp'd my soul immortal.
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“Nor spend that moment, in a fruitless sigh,
“Which to your soul belongs; already lodg'd
“Beyond the grasp of Death; my warfare's o'er,
“Then mourn but for yourselves, and own a God.”
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