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Elegy on the death of the Reverend Jonathan Mayhew ...

who departed this life July 9th, Anno Domini, 1766. Aetatis suae 46

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His earliest Joy was Liberty, for this,
His Soul to Labours, Watchings, Prayers he gave,
Freedom was all his Ardor, all his Bliss,
His Heart turn'd Rebel at that Tho't, a Slave: