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    All live more tender seen through frW ship ' s tear , * 5 fneu ^ - While gen ' rous hearts shall feel and fe ;» , » « here . &nd c Methinks I see , by hope's great theme in . . spir d , " * That form rever'd in sudden light attir'd Pursue the path immortal prophets trod ' To tarace the deepest charities of God ' Then as delight his raptur'd eye bedew \ J Each mind amaz'd the glorious prosperf view'd , r

    Death ' s icy fetters seem'd by mercy broke And sorrow dropt her sceptre as he spoke ' Deep ' mid the fading gloom as man could trace Shone vistas fair of universal grace *

    Heav ' n seem'd all op ' ning to the ravisb'd sight With fanes half viewless from " excessive bright 5 " Hell sunk a trembling spectre 'mid the blaze ,

    And earth bloom'd ever young ' joy and praise . Then notes of gladness from the vision clear , Stole in sweet whispers on the list ' ning ear 1

    Prophetic stiains of bliss to reign on high , Join ed with the mellow voice of years gone by ; Then light from heav ' n seem / d freshly still to glow , Like pure enchantment o ' er these realms

    of woe , Gleam'd like a holier moon-beam through the bow ' rs , Blush'dio the clouds and sparkled ui the flow ' rs , Shed on the genial earth a softer green , And gleam ' d on angel ' s wings at distance

    seen , Cast oh the woods a tint of gentler spring . Till earth appear'd a visionary thing : Man seem'd again in hope and bliss a tyyt And life one cloudless dream of love and joy . Then let n , o tear , save such as hope may shed , Bedew tne flow ' rs that deck his lowly bed j But there let breezy whispers greet tbe

    3 . ar Like first sweet concords of a-jarring sphere ; There let young hearts pursue his glorious .. thejne , And sink abtorVd in virtue ' s hohesi dream ; There let the soul oppress'd delight to 8 ta ?> * ^ di Think on his name and muse its gn *»

    Let artless « hildfaox > d lisp its earliest p ^ £ And cQ ^ trUc » mwum tftste ** & *** . tbere :

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    55 O Poetry . —A Tribute to the Memory of the Rev . William Fidter

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    si Tribute to the Memory of THE REV . WILLIAM VIDLJER . Hash ! 'twas no strain of anguish or despair That softly floats on ev ' ning ' s stillest air , Celestial bliss the distant note rereads , Though from the grave the solemn music steals $ An angel ' s lyre , through shades of fun ' ral gloom , More sweetly mild from sweeping o ' er the tomb . Yes ; there remov'd from mortal cares , he sleeps , % yhose soft repose affection scarcely weeps , Whose earthly days in such' sweet concord L ran . Earth sunk from view ere death's control began ; Who , ' mid the storms of life , with cloudless brow ,

    As calmly rested as he slumbers now ; To evil dead while here he drew his breath , And living yet triumphant in his death . Here lo ^ g shal l friendship ' s tend ' rest mem ' ry trace The mild effulgence of his speaking face—The eye where kindness beam'd , and fixes of yeuth Still kindled joyous at the voice of truth—Li ' t up , not dim'd by care or quench * d by years , Sparkling with joy or eloquent in tears ;——"The conscious dignity by nature giv * n , The hope that had its resting-place in heav ' n , The heart-felt eloquence , the manly sense , The genial wit that gave no ear offence ; TTfcc courteous mien that , grac'd by rev * rend ag *» Pisarm'd the bigot in his fiercest rage , The pow'r that flash'd conviction on the mind , The heart that knew no party but mankind t

    4 ? If yen require a ^ Qpipfneojk , lq ' o )* around you . - * ~ ~ l

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    as this town was among the last scenes of his labours , so it was one in which they were most eminentl y successful . In future times , when the cause of truth may have advanced to a much greater eminence than it has yet attained in this place , his name will be recollected with gratitude as its first supporter $ and of him , in the midst of the Unitarian congregation , might be most truly applied the epitaph on a celebrated architect— " Si monurnentum requiris , rircumspice . " * T . N . T .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/50/