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WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF IN A COPY OF THE AUTHOR’S POEM “THE EXCURSION,” UPON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF THE LATE VICAR OF KENDAL.
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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. 10 1814.