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O Lay him by his Father!
1836.
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[The “father” alluded to in this elegy, was the late Thomas Anderton, of Gargrave, a gentleman universally respected.]
O lay him by his father,
The mourned with many tears!
Alas! we would have rather
He had seen his father's years:
But Death will ever gather
All ages to his fold—
Then lay him by his father,
The young man by the old!
The mourned with many tears!
Alas! we would have rather
He had seen his father's years:
But Death will ever gather
All ages to his fold—
Then lay him by his father,
The young man by the old!
Lay the son beside the father,
The branch beside the tree!
We will not weep!—but rather
Say—“Rest ye peacefully,
Till God—our shepherd—gather
His loved ones to his fold;
Then rise—both son and father,
The young man and the old!”
The branch beside the tree!
We will not weep!—but rather
Say—“Rest ye peacefully,
Till God—our shepherd—gather
His loved ones to his fold;
Then rise—both son and father,
The young man and the old!”
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