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To a good Man of most dear memory	A
This Stone is sacred Here he lies apart	B
From the great city where he first drew breath	C
Was reared and taught and humbly earned his bread	D
To the strict labours of the merchant's desk	E
By duty chained Not seldom did those tasks	F
Tease and the thought of time so spent depress	G
His spirit but the recompense was high	H
Firm Independence Bounty's rightful sire	I
Affections warm as sunshine free as air	J
And when the precious hours of leisure came	K
Knowledge and wisdom gained from converse sweet	L
With books or while he ranged the crowded streets	M
With a keen eye and overflowing heart	B
So genius triumphed over seeming wrong	N
And poured out truth in works by thoughtful love	O
Inspired works potent over smiles and tears	P
And as round mountain tops the lightning plays	Q
Thus innocently sported breaking forth	R
As from a cloud of some grave sympathy	A
Humour and wild instinctive wit and all	S
The vivid flashes of his spoken words	T
From the most gentle creature nursed in fields	U
Had been derived the name he bore a name	K
Wherever Christian altars have been raised	V
Hallowed to meekness and to innocence	W
And if in him meekness at times gave way	X
Provoked out of herself by troubles strange	Y
Many and strange that hung about his life	Z
Still at the centre of his being lodged	A2
A soul by resignation sanctified	A2
And if too often self reproached he felt	A2
That innocence belongs not to our kind	A2
A power that never ceased to abide in him	B2
Charity 'mid the multitude of sins	C2
That she can cover left not his exposed	A2
To an unforgiving judgment from just Heaven	D2
Oh he was good if e'er a good Man lived	A2
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From a reflecting mind and sorrowing heart	A2
Those simple lines flowed with an earnest wish	E2
Though but a doubting hope that they might serve	F2
Fitly to guard the precious dust of him	B2
Whose virtues called them forth That aim is missed	A2
For much that truth most urgently required	A2
Had from a faltering pen been asked in vain	G2
Yet haply on the printed page received	A2
The imperfect record there may stand unblamed	A2
As long as verse of mine shall breathe the air	J
Of memory or see the light of love	O
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Thou wert a scorner of the fields my Friend	A2
But more in show than truth and from the fields	U
And from the mountains to thy rural grave	H2
Transported my soothed spirit hovers o'er	I
Its green untrodden turf and blowing flowers	I2
And taking up a voice shall speak tho' still	J2
Awed by the theme's peculiar sanctity	A2
Which words less free presumed not even to touch	K2
Of that fraternal love whose heaven lit lamp	L2
From infancy through manhood to the last	A2
Of threescore years and to thy latest hour	I
Burnt on with ever strengthening light enshrined	A2
Within thy bosom	M2
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Wonderful hath been	N2
The love established between man and man	O2
Passing the love of women and between	P2
Man and his help mate in fast wedlock joined	A2
Through God is raised a spirit and soul of love	O
Without whose blissful influence Paradise	Q2
Had been no Paradise and earth were now	R2
A waste where creatures bearing human form	S2
Direst of savage beasts would roam in fear	T2
Joyless and comfortless Our days glide on	U2
And let him grieve who cannot choose but grieve	V2
That he hath been an Elm without his Vine	W2
And her bright dower of clustering charities	X2
That round his trunk and branches might have clung	Y2
Enriching and adorning Unto thee	A2
Not so enriched not so adorned to thee	A2
Was given say rather thou of later birth	Z2
Wert given to her a Sister 'tis a word	A2
Timidly uttered for she 'lives' the meek	A3
The self restraining and the ever kind	A2
In whom thy reason and intelligent heart	A2
Found for all interests hopes and tender cares	P
All softening humanising hallowing powers	I2
Whether withheld or for her sake unsought	A2
More than sufficient recompense	B3
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Her love	O
What weakness prompts the voice to tell it here	C3
Was as the love of mothers and when years	D3
Lifting the boy to man's estate had called	A2
The long protected to assume the part	A2
Of a protector the first filial tie	A2
Was undissolved and in or out of sight	A2
Remained imperishably interwoven	D2
With life itself Thus 'mid a shifting world	A2
Did they together testify of time	E3
And season's difference a double tree	A2
With two collateral stems sprung from one root	A2
Such were they such thro' life they 'might' have been	N2
In union in partition only such	K2
Otherwise wrought the will of the Most High	A2
Yet thro' all visitations and all trials	F3
Still they were faithful like two vessels launched	A2
From the same beach one ocean to explore	G3
With mutual help and sailing to their league	H3
True as inexorable winds or bars	I3
Floating or fixed of polar ice allow	R2
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But turn we rather let my spirit turn	J3
With thine O silent and invisible Friend	A2
To those dear intervals nor rare nor brief	K3
When reunited and by choice withdrawn	L3
From miscellaneous converse ye were taught	A2
That the remembrance of foregone distress	G
And the worse fear of future ill which oft	A2
Doth hang around it as a sickly child	A2
Upon its mother may be both alike	M3
Disarmed of power to unsettle present good	A2
So prized and things inward and outward held	A2
In such an even balance that the heart	A2
Acknowledges God's grace his mercy feels	N3
And in its depth of gratitude is still	J2
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O gift divine of quiet sequestration	D2
The hermit exercised in prayer and praise	Q
And feeding daily on the hope of heaven	D2
Is happy in his vow and fondly cleaves	O3
To life long singleness but happier far	P3
Was to your souls and to the thoughts of others	I2
A thousand times more beautiful appeared	A2
Your 'dual' loneliness The sacred tie	A2
Is broken yet why grieve for Time but holds	Q3
His moiety in trust till Joy shall lead	A2
To the blest world where parting is unknown	R3
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