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Say shall you Then regret your Woes<br />

Or mourn your teeming Years?<br />

One moment will reward your Throes<br />

And overpower your Tears.<br />

Redoubled Thanks will fill your Song<br />

Transported while you view<br />

The incircling, happy infant Throng<br />

That owes their bliss to you!<br />

So moves the Common Star, tho’ bright<br />

With single Lustre, crown’d;<br />

The Planet shines with Guards of Light<br />

Attending it around.<br />

On an Infant 128<br />

Beneath a Sleeping Infant lies;<br />

To earth whose Ashes lent<br />

More glorious shall hereafter rise,<br />

But not more Innocent.<br />

When the Archangel’s Trump shall blow,<br />

And Souls and Bodies join,<br />

What Crowds will wish their Lives below<br />

Had been as Short as Thine!<br />

Ye who more Strict Account must give<br />

Prepare as low to lie!<br />

Ye that know what it is to Live,<br />

Learn what it is to Die!<br />

128 Samuel Wesley Jr., ms; published (anonymously) in David Lewis (1683?–1760), ed., Miscellaneous<br />

Poems by Several Hands (London: J. Watts, 1730), 18 (without last stanza); republished with last stanza in The<br />

Venture: Being a Collection of Poems on Several Occasions (London: J. Penn, 1731), 19; then again without last<br />

stanza in Samuel Wesley Jr., Poems on Several Occasions (London: S. Birt, 1736), 12.<br />

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