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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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