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EPITAPH VI. ON THOMAS FOUNTAYNE, ESQ.
ONLY SON OF THE DEAN OF YORK, IN THE CHURCH OF MELTON, YORKSHIRE.
O here, if ever, holy Patience bendThy duteous knee! the hand of Heav'n revere!
Here bid the father, mother, sister, friend
In mute submission drop the christian tear!
Nor blame, that in the vernal noon of youth
The buds of manly worth, whose opening bloom
Had glow'd with Honour, Fortitude, and Truth,
Sunk in th' eternal winter of the tomb:
That he, whose form with health, with beauty charm'd,
For whom fair Fortune's liberal feast was spread,
Whom Science nurtur'd, bright example warm'd,
Was torn by ling'ring torture to the dead.
“Hark!” cries a voice that awes the silenc'd air,
“The doom of man in my dread bosom lies;
“Be your's awhile to pace this vale of care,
“Be his to soar with seraphs in the skies.”
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