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THE STAR GAZER.
Ah! say ye bright inhabitants on high!Ye planetary travellers of the sky!
When the world-wearied sufferers sink to rest,
Is their's the mansion of your sparkling breast?
Will there the voice of pity pour its balm,
And her kind eye illume its heavenly charm?
Will soul meet soul, though forced on earth to part,
And wake with whispered wish the dreaming heart?
Shall life's poor pilgrim doom'd with grief to roam,
Find in your trembling rays a tranquil home,
Till the last trump vibrates its kindling call,
And the Immortal Mind encircles all?
The atrocious Lord Rochester was converted to Christianity by Bishop Burnet; at the time, and during the sufferings of an incurable decline of constitution. Upon which occasion, the horrors of his wretched mind, and the reproaches of his awakened conscience, seem property to illustrate the contrast of religious trust and error.
The younger Lord Lyttleton died as he had lived, wretched in principles, miserable in conduct, hopeless in sickness, and appalled in death; which was accelerated by the famous dream of the lady, and the bird, &c. &c. and most probably made more immediate by the proud and painful suppression of his desperate feelings, occasioning one of the ventricles of the heart to burst, by which he expired.
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