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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

A POEM Dedicated to the Memory OF The Reverend and Excellent MR. URIAN OAKES, the late Pastor to Christ's Flock, and Præsident of Harvard-Colledge, in Cambridge, Who was gathered to his People on 25d 5mo 1681. In the fifty'th Year of his Age.

Memoirs of the Life and Worth: Lamentations for the Death, and Loss of the every way admirable Mr. URIAN OAKES.

AN ELEGY ON The Much-to-be-deplored DEATH OF That Never-to-be-forgotten PERSON, The Reverend Mr. NATHANAEL COLLINS;

An ELEGY Upon the DEATH of Mrs. MARY BROWN; Who Dyed in Travail, (with her Unborn Child;) On Dec. 26. 1703.Ætatis Suæ 35.

A Lacrymatory: Design'd for the Tears let fall at the Funeral of Mrs. SARAH LEVERET; Who Dy'd 2d. 11 M. 1704,5.

On the GRAVES, OF MY Young Brethren,

GRATITUDINIS ERGO, An ESSAY on the Memory of my Venerable MASTER; Ezekiel Cheever.

EPITAPHIUM. EZEKIEL CHEEVERUS.

The Excellent WIGGLESWORTH, Remembred by some Good Tokens.

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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

Appendix A. Diary and Paterna Verse

Appendix B. Hand-Written Inscriptions

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The Title:

When Moab shall be trodden down,
And in mount Sion rest God's hand,
In that day shall this Song, to God
Be sung all over Judah's land.