Lines Written On A Blank Leaf In A Copy Of The Author’s Poem “The Excursion,” by William Wordsworth

Upon Hearing Of The Death Of The Late Vicar Of Kendal
TO public notice, with reluctance strong,
Did I deliver this unfinished Song;
Yet for one happy issue;–and I look
With self-congratulation on the Book
Which pious, learned, MURFITT saw and read;–
Upon my thoughts his saintly Spirit fed;
He conned the new-born Lay with grateful heart–
Foreboding not how soon he must depart;
Unweeting that to him the joy was given
Which good men take with them from earth to heaven.

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The End

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