The Mourner Comforted: A Selection of Extracts, Consolatory on the Death of Friends; From the Writings of the Most Eminent Divines and Others; ... Together With Prayers Suited to the Various - Hardcover

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Our rugged path to death, to break those bars Of terror and abhorrence, Nature throws Cross our obstructed way; and thus, to make Welcome as safe, our port from every storm.

Smitten friends Are angels sent on errands full of love; For us they languish, and for us they die. And shall they languish, shall they die 1n vain? Ungrateful shall we grieve their hov' ring shades, Which wait the revolution in our hearts? Shall we disdain their silent soft address; Their posthumous advice, and pious prayer; Senseless as herds which graze their hallowed graves, Tread under foot their agonies and groans, Frustrate their anguish, and destroy their deaths?

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