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Cotton Mather's verse in English
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
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Part One: Religious Meditations
2.
Part Two: Elegies and Epitaphs
3.
Part Three: Verse for Children
4.
Part Four: Agricola Verse
Singing at the PLOW.
The SOWER a Singer.
The RAIN gasped for.
The Song of the SITHE.
The Sons of GOD, Singing among The Trees of GOD; Full of Sap, and of Songs before Him.
The Songs of HARVEST.
5.
Part Five: Hymns
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Part Six: Bible Verse
Appendix A. Diary and Paterna Verse
Appendix B. Hand-Written Inscriptions
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Cotton Mather's verse in English
And then his
Orphans
, all
ensabled
add
O could be say—that once a Father had,
A Father whose paternal over-sight
Did make us over happy, whose Delight
Was in our
Welfare,
whose Behaviours
Still taught us
—Mercy!
what a loss is our's
!
Cotton Mather's verse in English