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A FRAGMENT OF A POEM ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL DANFORTH, AN INFANT, 1653 |
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A FRAGMENT OF A POEM ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL DANFORTH, AN INFANT, 1653
What if they part with their beloved one,Their first Begotten, and their Only Son?
What's this to that which Father Abram Suffer'd,
When his own hands his Only Darling offer'd,
In whom was bound up all his Joy in this
Life present, and his hope of future Bliss?
And what if God their Other Children Call,
Second, Third, Fourth, suppose it should be All?
What's this to Holy Job, his Trials sad,
Who neither these nor t'other Comforts had?
His Life was only given him for a Prey,
Yet all his Troubles were to Heaven the way;
Yea to far Greater Blessings on the Earth,
The Lord rewarding all his Tears with Mirth.
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