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    Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author
    Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author
    Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author
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    Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author

    By William Hayley

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author

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      Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author - William Hayley

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      Title: Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author

      Author: William Hayley

      Release Date: September, 2005 [EBook #8948] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on August 29, 2003]

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      POEMS ON SERIOUS AND SACRED SUBJECTS,

      PRINTED ONLY AS PRIVATE TOKENS OF REGARD,

      FOR THE PARTICULAR FRIENDS OF THE AUTHOR.

      ….nec pia cessant In tumulo officia.

      MILTONI MANSUS.

      A Christian's kindness ends not in the tomb.

      Chichester:

      PRINTED AT THE PRIVATE PRESS OF W. MASON.

      1818.

      ON THE FEAR OF DEATH:

      AN EPISTLE TO A LADY.

      1768.

      THE FEAR OF DEATH.

      Thou! whose superior, and aspiring mind

      Can leave the weakness of thy sex behind;

      Above its follies, and its fears can rise,

      Quit the low earth, and gain the distant skies:

      Whom strength of soul and innocence have taught

      To think of death, nor shudder at the thought;

      Say! whence the dread, that can alike engage

      Vain thoughtless youth, and deep-reflecting age;

      Can shake the feeble, and appal the strong;

      Say! whence the terrors, that to death belong?

      Guilt must be fearful: but the guiltless too

      Start from the grave, and tremble at the view.

      The blood-stained pirate, who in neighbouring climes,

      Might fear, lest justice should o'ertake his crimes,

      Wisely may bear the sea's tempestuous roar,

      And rather wait the storm, than make the shore;

      But can the mariner, who sailed in vain

      In search of fancy'd treasure on the main,

      By hope deceiv'd, by endless whirlwinds tost,

      His strength exhausted, and his viands lost,

      When land invites him to receive at last

      A full reward for every danger past:

      Can he then wish his labours to renew,

      And fly the port just opening to his view?

      Not less the folly of the timorous mind,

      Which dreads that peace, it ever longs to find;

      Which worn with age, and tost in endless strife

      On this rough ocean, this tempestuous life,

      Still covets pain, and shakes with abject fear,

      When sickness points to death, and shews the haven near.

      The love of life, it yet must be confest,

      Was fixed by Nature in the human breast;

      And Heaven thought fit that fondness to employ.

      To teach us to

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