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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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39.

He nurs'd the Sons of Want, by his Command,
The Streams of copious Bounty hourly flew,
Till Death's stiff Palsy bound his clay-cold Hand,
Never was Mayhew backward to bestow: