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October	A
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Epistle	B
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Friend of my vernal and autumnal day	C
In life's gay bloom and in its slow decay	C
Sargent who leav'st thy hermit's studious cell	D
To act thy busier part and act it well	D
In courts of rural justice to preside	E
In temperate dignity unstain'd with pride	E
Oft let us meet that friendship's honour'd chain	F
In its extension may new lustre gain	F
So let us cheer'd by memory's social blaze	G
Live o'er again our long departed days	G
I thank kind Heaven that made the pleasure mine	H
Beneath my roof to see thy virtues shine	H
When Providence thy fondest wishes crown'd	I
Casting thy lot on fair and southern ground	I
When the gay songs of Eartham's friendly grove	J
Proclaim'd the triumph of thy prosperous love	K
Tis sweet to plant a friend in genial land	L
And see his branches round the world expand	L
I share thy joy the heart's parental feast	M
To learn thy filial pilgrim in the East	M
Thy youthful Harry is among the prime	N
Whom learning honours in her Indian clime	N
Nor less the joy to hear thy eldest born	O
Whom gifts of sacred eloquence adorn	O
Has with Cicestria's liberal applause	P
Those gifts exerted in the noblest cause	Q
Pleas'd to promote the most sublime emprise	R
That Christian charity could e'er devise	R
To blend her votaries of every name	N
In one harmonious universal aim	N
To make the word of God that truest wealth	S
The heart's nutrition and the spirit's health	S
As common as the food by heavenly power	A
Pour'd from the skies a life preserving shower	A
On deserts pour'd in hopeless hunger's track	T
When He who gather'd little felt no lack	T
My friend of many years we both have found	I
Darkness and sunshine on the chequer'd ground	I
In different paths appointed to our feet	U
You in the world your host in his retreat	U
Yet blest be Heaven that grants us to behold	V
Wonders of Providence like those of old	V
When mortals in the waste they murmuring trod	W
Saw and rever'd the guidance of their God	W
We have beheld and with one heart and voice	X
Hail'd the bright scene that bids the globe rejoice	X
Nature releas'd from devastation's flood	Y
And peace emerging from a sea of blood	Y
Wonders yet happier to devotion's eyes	R
In blissful vision will now widely rise	R
From pure diffusive zeal in Britain sprung	Z
Bidding the Gospel speak in every tongue	Z
Till its effect earth's utmost bounds attest	A2
Jesus enthron'd in every human breast	A2
And all his subjects as his mercy will'd	B2
Feeling within themselves his joy fulfill'd	B2
Yes my time honoured friend with one accord	C2
We bless the promised advent of our Lord	C2
In heavenly prospect tho' we still sustain	F
Our unexhausted share of earthly pain	F
But whatsoever ills yet undisplay'd	C2
May o'er our eve of life throw deeper shade	C2
We have the constant comfort to possess	D2
An antidote against the mind's distress	D2
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That settled trust in Providence divine	H
Which lets the Christian at no lot repine	H
But when most tried his faith's prime power employ	E2
And make affliction minister to joy	E2
We both have past thro' many a troubled day	C2
And felt adversity's heart searching sway	C2
But when most wounded both have kiss'd the rod	C2
And blest the pangs assign'd us by our God	C2
To wean us from a world which Nature sees	F2
None estimate aright or quit with ease	F2
But souls Heaven taught that free from doubt's alarm	N
Hail death their herald to the Saviour's arms	G2
We both my friend in mind sedate and firm	N
Enter'd with thankfulness life's latest term	N
And I might claim could years such right assume	N
First to attain the quiet of the tomb	N
There show me still the friendship of our youth	H2
And still speak of me with indulgent truth	H2
May'st thou less worn by griefs of many a year	I2
Still rich in filial gems that earth endear	J2
Thy public duties long with grace discharge	K2
Esteem'd and honour'd by the world at large	K2
Thy elder idler friend that world may spare	L2
And yet allow his name a station there	L2
For he long literary zeal has shown	H
To honour merit that surpassed his own	H
And hop'd to live beyond his mortal days	G
In England's memory and friendship's praise	G
High hopes o'er which his holier thoughts aspire	M2
And make the peace of God his paramount desire	A

William Hayley

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