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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478659" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To His Honour The Lieutenant-Governor, On The Death Of His Lady Marc 24, 1773</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALL-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,<br>Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!<br>Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,<br>Forget their splendors, and submit to die!<br>Who ere escap'd thee, but the saint * of old<br>Beyond the flood in sacred annals told,<br>And the great sage, + whom fiery coursers drew<br>To heav'n's bright portals from Elisha's view;<br>Wond'ring he gaz'd at the refulgent car,<br>Then snatch'd the mantle floating on the air.<br>From Death these only could exemption boast,<br>And without dying gain'd th' immortal coast.<br>Not falling millions sate the tyrant's mind,<br>Nor can the victor's progress be confin'd.<br>But cease thy strife with Death, fond Nature, cease:<br>He leads the virtuous to the realms of peace;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> * Enoch. + Elijah.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His to conduct to the immortal plains,<br>Where heav'n's Supreme in bliss and glory reigns.<br> There sits, illustrious Sir, thy beauteous spouse;<br>A gem-blaz'd circle beaming on her brows.<br>Hail'd with acclaim among the heav'nly choirs,<br>Her soul new-kindling with seraphic fires,<br>To notes divine she tunes the vocal strings,<br>While heav'n's high concave with the music rings.<br>Virtue's rewards can mortal pencil paint?<br>No--all descriptive arts, and eloquence are faint;<br>Nor canst thou, Oliver, assent refuse<br>To heav'nly tidings from the Afric muse.<br> As soon may change thy laws, eternal fate,<br>As the saint miss the glories I relate;<br>Or her Benevolence forgotten lie,<br>Which wip'd the trick'ling tear from Misry's eye.<br>Whene'er the adverse winds were known to blow,<br>When loss to loss * ensu'd, and woe to woe,<br>Calm and serene beneath her father's hand<br>She sat resign'd to the divine command.<br> No longer then, great Sir, her death deplore,<br>And let us hear the mournful sigh no more,<br>Restrain the sorrow streaming from thine eye,<br>Be all thy future moments crown'd with joy!<br>Nor let thy wishes be to earth confin'd,<br>But soaring high pursue th' unbodied mind.<br>Forgive the muse, forgive th' advent'rous lays,<br>That fain thy soul to heav'nly scenes would raise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Phillis+Wheatley">Phillis Wheatley</a><div class=q>
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Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!
Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,
Forget their splendors, and submit to die!
Who ere escap'd thee, but the saint * of old
Beyond the flood in sa..."></div>
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