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No solid good from Earth born joys arise
The airy phantoms cheat our longing Eyes
Experience oft this Sacred truth impart
Best impress’d on this deluded heart
That real good & permanent delight
Dwells only in the blissful realms of Light
Thither my Wishes soar nor think it best
Here to enjoy this journey as thy rest
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All gracious heaven in wisdom has designd
Immortal Bliss for yt immortal Mind
And destin’d us an equal Share of woe
To wean our hearts from vanity below
To prompt our wishes for a happier state
Where an Eternity of joys Complete
But ah how weak is each resolve of mine
Unless assisted by a power Divine
O be that power my constant guard & guide
By whom my every want is well supplied
Be grateful love & adoration mine
May tuneful praise with constant worship join
Indulgent heaven has crown’d my days with health
With a blest competence tho’ not with Wealth
With Friends endear’d by soft Affections ties
To them to me repeated Blessings rise
O be Unceasing praise my blest employ
Whilst the goods of providence enjoy
O my lov’d Friend thou welcome boon of heaven
Thy Friendship heightens every blessing given
O be my Silvia heavens peculiar care
May you in every needful blessing share
For you my friend the ardent pray’r shall rise
May heaven indulgent hear a suppliants cries
Yet long may our lov’d Theodosia live
And share those Mercys God alone give
Long may you know that kind parental care
Long live those friends whom justly we revere
But if far Different Wisdom has design’d
O may we still be patient & resign’d
Obedient bow beneath a Father’s rod
Prostrate adore the Sovreign hand of God
Of hope & resignation still possest
View all the wise degrees as right as best
......
The tear of simpathy sincere I lend
And feel the sorrows of my much lov’d friend
When anxious Care depress your pensive mind
Where every soft sensation is combin’d
Where tenderest love in sweet compassion flows
And melts in tears & feels for others woes
You share ye pain in Agonies of grief
When art & med’cine yields no kind relief
Poignant I know the feelings of our heart
And wish in vain one comfort to empart
Text: Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 4, pp. 202-03; Attwater Papers, acc. 76, II.B.2.(b), Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford.
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