<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355508" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dead Beggar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AN ELEGY. <br>Addressed to a Lady, who was affected at seeing the<br>Funeral of a nameless Pauper, buried at the ex-<br>pense of the Parish, in the Church-Yard at Bright-<br>helmstone, in November 1792. <br>SWELLS then thy feeling heart, and streams thine eye<br>O'er the deserted being, poor and old,<br>Whom cold, reluctant, parish charity<br>Consigns to mingle with his kindred mould?<br>Mourn'st thou, that here the time-worn sufferer ends<br>Those evil days still threatening woes to come;<br>Here, where the friendless feel no want of friends,<br>Where even the houseless wanderer finds a home!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What though no kindred crowd in sable forth,<br>And sigh, or seem to sigh, around his bier;<br>Though o'er his coffin with the humid earth<br>No children drop the unavailing tear?<br>Rather rejoice that here his sorrows cease,<br>Whom sickness, age, and poverty oppress'd;<br>Where death, the leveller, restores to peace<br>The wretch who living knew not where to rest.<br>Rejoice, that though an outcast spurn'd by fate,<br>Through penury's rugged path his race he ran;<br>In earth's cold bosom, equall'd with the great,<br>Death vindicates the insulted rights of man.<br>Rejoice, that though severe his earthly doom,<br>And rude, and sown with thorns the way he trod,<br>Now, (where unfeeling fortune cannot come)<br>He rests upon the mercies of his God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Smith">Charlotte Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355508" data-title="The Dead Beggar de Charlotte Smith" data-description="AN ELEGY. Addressed to a Lady, who was affected at seeing the Funeral of a nameless Pauper, buried at the ex- pense of the Parish, in the Church-Yard at Bright- helmstone, in November 1792. SWELLS then thy feeling heart, and streams thine eye O'..."></div> </div> </div>

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