OF gentle Blood, his Parents only Treasure, Their lasting Sorrow and their vanish'd Pleasure, Adorn'd with Features, Virtues, Wit, and Grace, A large Provision for so short a Race: More mod'rate Gifts might have prolong'd his Date, Too early fitted for a better State: But, knowing Heav'n his Home, to shun Delay He leap'd o'er Age, and took the shortest Way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STARTING FROM PAUMANOK by WALT WHITMAN THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4 by MARK AKENSIDE MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS) by EVELYN D. BANGAY TO A MISSIONARY, WHO ATTENDED ... MEETING OF BIBLE SOCIETY by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |