FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light              #20
                            Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight;
                            On the kind bosom of eternal love
                            She finds unknown beatitude above.
                            This known, ye parents, nor her loss deplore,
                            She feels the iron hand of pain no more;
                            The dispensations of unerring grace,
                            Should turn your sorrows into grateful praise;
                            Let then no tears for her henceforward flow,
                            No more distress'd in our dark vale below.
                              Her morning sun, which rose divinely bright,
                            Was quickly mantled with the gloom of night;
                            But hear in heav'n's blest bow'rs your Nancy fair,
                            And learn to imitate her language there.
                                                         --Phyllis Wheatly            CLICK FOR EXAMPLE #21

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