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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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