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Cotton Mather's verse in English
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
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Part One: Religious Meditations
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Part Two: Elegies and Epitaphs
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Part Three: Verse for Children
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Part Four: Agricola Verse
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Part Five: Hymns
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Part Six: Bible Verse
X. COMMANDMENTS.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
A Preparatory Thanksgiving-Song, fetch'd from the Beginning and Conclusion of the Hundred and Third Psalm.
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