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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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46.

Yes he was good, indeed divinely good,
The Zest of Grace enrich'd his pregnant Mind,
O'er the inferiour World, the Victor stood,
And trampled on the Idols of Mankind: