...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic Moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? Hark I how the sacred calm, that breathes around,...

...anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops tlie closing eye requires : FV'IJ from the tomb, the voice of nature cries, i in our ashes live their...

...a state, which they know by experience, to be fertile in blessings. " For who to dull forgetfulncss a prey, •' This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned ; " Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, " Nor cast one longing ling'riug look behind ?"* That a desperate sinner, too impatient to bear...

...relish for life, or that we should be indifferent about its extinction ; " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering wish behind •" But as we know we must die, we should be at all...

...anxious being e'nr resign'd, Left the warm precinetsof the cheerful day; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eve r< qnir«s ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted...

...being e'er resign'd, •Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drcps the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live...

...country church yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned ? Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind?" The words longing and lingering express most forcibly...

...being" e'er resign'el, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful llav, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops t!ie closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes* live their...

...reluctance to die which even the wisest aud the best may experience ; For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering, look behind ? As for myself— witness every feeling of my heart,...

...anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm preeinets of the eheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering netion, preposition, adverb join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line : In m elosing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voiee of nature eries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted...