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On Mrs. Hole, aged 71 114<br />

Here slumber Free among the Dead,<br />

Blest Dust! nor Care, nor Age, nor Pain<br />

Again shall raise that peaceful Head,<br />

Shall ope those sleeping Eyes again.<br />

With even, patient, humble Mind,<br />

Long, Happy Sufferer, hast Thou prov’d<br />

Thy Father how severely Kind!<br />

How sore He chasten’d whom he Lov’d!<br />

Sweet, mild and tender wast Thou shown,<br />

While in this Land of Tears below,<br />

Tho’ more than Conqu’ror in Thy own,<br />

Bending beneath thy Neighbour’s Woe.<br />

When Seventy Winters now had snow’d<br />

Their Silver Honours on thy Head,<br />

Thy spotless Soul, mature for God,<br />

Groan’d from her Bondage to be freed.<br />

God heard: Th’ obedient Fever came,<br />

Yet wanted Strength Life’s Knot t’ unty,<br />

Till, aided by Devotion’s Flame,<br />

It rap’t her to her native Sky!<br />

114 [Anonymous], “On Mrs. Hole, Aged 71,” in David Lewis (1683?–1760), ed., Miscellaneous Poems by<br />

Several Hands (London: J. Watts, 1730), 203–5.<br />

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