...wept, and prayed, and felt for all: And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-8edged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." Whilst we would admire and love the man, wo would more than all adore the grace which made him to differ....

...wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies; He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayM, The reverend...

...cordiality." " In his high duty prompt at every call, " He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all : " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, "To tempt its new fledg'd offspring to the skies, " He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, " Allur'd to brighter...

...virtue's side: But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. And, as a bird, each fond endearment tries To tempt its new fiedg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds,...

...wept, he pray'd and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment trie?, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." One more remark, one other brief quotation, and we quit this most fascinating poem, which nestles deeper...

...might truly be said of him, that ." As a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way" Besides.his knowledge was not confined to theology ; he was a man of research and general information...

...wept, and pray'd, and felt, for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend...

...wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved...delay, Allured to brighter worlds* and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend...

...description : " In bis high doty prompt at every call, " He watoh'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all: " And as a bird each fond endearment tries, " To tempt its new fledg'd offspring to the skies, " He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, " Allur'd to brighter...

...long-mjj'ering and gentleness: " And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies; He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way." On the 17th of February, 1685, aged 71, he bid adieu...