An Epistle in Verse, occasioned by the death of James Boswell, Esquire of Auchinleck -- Addressed to the Rev. Dr. T. D. By the Rev. Samuel Martin |
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Yes, solid, thinking men, like you and me,
Mourn, not admire, his eccentricity;
His prison scenes; his prying into death;
How felons, and how saints, resign their breath;
How varying and conflicting passions roll;
How scaffold-exhibitions show the soul;
How Faith and Hope dispel the dismal gloom;
How harden'd Vice shrinks from the world to come;
How sceptics, in the near approach of death,
Compunction feel, and settle into faith.
Mourn, not admire, his eccentricity;
His prison scenes; his prying into death;
How felons, and how saints, resign their breath;
How varying and conflicting passions roll;
How scaffold-exhibitions show the soul;
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How harden'd Vice shrinks from the world to come;
How sceptics, in the near approach of death,
Compunction feel, and settle into faith.
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