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Various pieces in verse and prose

By the late Nathaniel Cotton. Many of which were never before published. In two volumes
Cotton, Nathaniel (1705-1788)
  
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VOL. I.
  
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FABLES.
 I. 
FABLE I. The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow.
 II. 
FABLE II. The Scholar and the Cat.
 III. 
FABLE III. Neptune and the Mariners.
 IV. 
FABLE IV. The Beau and the Viper.
 V. 
FABLE V. The Snail and the Gardener.
 VI. 
FABLE VI. The Farmer and the Horse.
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TALES.
  
The Lamb and the Pig.
  
Death and the Rake.
  
The second Ode of the second Book of Horace.
  
The Tenth Ode of the second Book.
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EPITAPHS.
  
[Reader, approach my urn—thou need'st not fear]
  
On Robert Clavering, M. B.
  
On Colonel Gardiner,
  
On Mr. Sibley, Of Studham.
  
On a Lady, who had laboured under a Cancer.
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VARIOUS PIECES.
  
An Invocation of Happiness, after the Oriental Manner of Speech.
  
[Reader, if fond of wonder and surprise]
  
An Enigma, inscribed to Miss P.
  
The Fireside.
  
To some Children listening to a Lark.
  
To a Child of five Years old.
  
On Lord Cobham's Garden.
  
Tomorrow.
  
An Allusion to Horace, Ode XVI. Book II.
  
An Epitaph upon Mr. Thomas Strong, who died on the 26th of December, 1736.
  
Epitaph upon Miss Gee, Who died October 25, 1736, Ætat. 28.
  
REBUS.
  
REBUS.
  
REBUS.
  
ANOTHER.
  
Some hasty Rhimes on Sleep.
  
A REBUS.
  
A SONG.
  
A Sunday Hymn, in Imitation of Dr. Watts.
  
An Ode on the Messiah.
  
An Ode on the New Year.
  
EPITAPH On John Duke of Bridgwater,
  
A Fable.
  
Addressed to a young Lady, whose favourite Bird was almost killed by a fall from her Finger.
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RIDDLES.
  
[From the dark caverns of the earth]
  
ANOTHER.
  
ANOTHER.
  
ANOTHER.
  
PSALM XIII.
  
PSALM XLII.
  
The Night Piece.
  
To the Rev. James Hervey, on his Meditations.
  
LINES under a Sun-Dial in the Church-yard at Thornby.
  
To the Memory Of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Clark, Who died December the 26th, aged 42.
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VISIONS IN VERSE, FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT AND INSTRUCTION OF YOUNGER MINDS.
  
AN EPISTLE TO THE READER.
 I. 
SLANDER.
 II. 
PLEASURE.
 III. 
HEALTH.
 IV. 
CONTENT.
 V. 
HAPPINESS.
 VI. 
FRIENDSHIP.
 VII. 
MARRIAGE.
 VIII. 
LIFE.
  
DEATH.

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To some Children listening to a Lark.

See the Lark prunes his active wings,
Rises to heaven, and soars, and sings.
His morning hymns, his mid-day lays,
Are one continued song of praise.
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He speaks his Maker all he can,
And shames the silent tongue of man.
When the declining orb of light
Reminds him of approaching night,
His warbling vespers swell his breast,
And as he sings he sinks to rest.
Shall birds instructive lessons teach,
And we be deaf to what they preach?
No, ye dear nestlings of my heart,
Go, act the wiser songster's part.
Spurn your warm couch at early dawn,
And with your God begin the morn.
To Him your grateful tribute pay
Thro' every period of the day.
To Him your evening songs direct;
His eye shall watch, his arm protect.
Tho' darkness reigns, He's with you still,
Then sleep, my babes, and fear no ill.
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