<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537840" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1789</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh most delightful hour by man<br>Experienced here below,<br>The hour that terminates his span,<br>His folly and his woe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Worlds should not bribe me back to tread<br>Again life's dreary waste,<br>To see again my day o'erspread<br>With all the gloomy past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My home henceforth is in the skies,<br>Earth, seas, and sun, adieu!<br>All heaven unfolded to my eyes,<br>I have no sight for you.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So spake Aspasio, firm possessed<br>Of faith's supporting rod,<br>Then breathed his soul into its rest,<br>The bosom of his God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was a man among the few<br>Sincere on virtue's side;<br>And all his strength from Scripture drew,<br>To hourly use applied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That rule he prized, by that he feared,<br>He hated, hoped, and loved;<br>Nor ever frowned, or sad appeared,<br>But when his heart had roved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he was frail as thou or I, <br>And evil felt within:<br>But when he felt it, heaved a sigh,<br>And loathed the thought of sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such lived Aspasio; and at last<br>Called up from earth to heaven,<br>The gulf of death triumphant passed,<br>By gales of blessing driven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His joys be mine, each reader cries,<br>When my last hour arrives;<br>They shall be yours, my verse replies,<br>Such only be your lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537840" data-title="Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1789" data-description="'Oh most delightful hour by man Experienced here below, The hour that terminates his span, His folly and his woe! 'Worlds should not bribe me back to tread Again life's dreary waste, To see again my day o'erspread With all the gloomy past. 'My h..."></div> </div> </div>

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