Nugae Modernae Morning thoughts, and midnight musings: consisting of casual reflections, egotisms, &c. In prose and verse. By Thomas Park |
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TO MISS D.
ON RETURNING SOME COMMENDATORY VERSES,
WHICH EXPRESSED A WISH THAT THE OBJECT OF HER
CHOICE MIGHT BE HEAVEN-CHOSEN. |
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TO MISS D. ON RETURNING SOME COMMENDATORY VERSES, WHICH EXPRESSED A WISH THAT THE OBJECT OF HER CHOICE MIGHT BE HEAVEN-CHOSEN.
With this unknown Encomiast of thine,I too, sweet friend, will join:
And pray that he who to thy choice is given,
May be the choice of Heaven!
That he thy tender heart with tenderness,
And truest love may bless:
And still through life that heart most fondly prize
For its blest charities;
Its filial piety, its christian truth,
Which have so grac'd thy youth;
And will give comfort, much as earth can give,
Long as you there shall live.
May he thou choosest never warp thy soul
From its celestial goal:
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To Love's eternal source!
That in pure rivalry ye both may rise
To gain Redemption's prize:
Remembering still, thy spirit first did wed
With Christ, thy living head;
That knit to Him thou might'st for ever be
In mystic unity;
And prove, like some upon Divine Record,
The handmaid of thy Lord:
Gaining, with Mary, at his feet a place,
Through God's transcendent grace.
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