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from.me.__When, shall I. meet that angel.soul again? Lsaw, I com- 
muned with, the others of my love: he the foster-child of glory, and 
honour, and. greatness;;—and she the victim of envy, and_ slander, and 
murder. Oh! the recognition of disembodied spirits—how. exquisite ! 
Yes,;—again I beheld, my fond. children,—beheld_ their blessed spirits, 
and held, delightful converse... We were snatched from each other— 
and when the archangel’s trump. shall call the silent sleepers from their 
graves,.then,, and. not till then, shall I feel the enduring presence of 
those who were all in all, both in life and death. 
Often do I revisit; the earth, commiserating the condition of man— 
viewing his joys and his sorrows—the fruition and destruction of his 
hopes. I mark his ceaseless labours—his early rising, and his late re- 
posing.. I.see the nothingness of his every thing, and. I return to. my 
abode, exultingly anticipating the glorious things that are to be. 
* * * * * 
x * * * * 
G,.H. 
6 POTATORIS.” 
Epitaph on a Toper in the Church of the Holy Ghost at Sienna. 
** Vina dabant vitam, mortem mihi vina dedere 
.} : : Sobrius auroram non potui 
Assa merum situnt, Vina consperge sepulcrum 
Et calice poto, care viator abi 
Valete Potatores.” 
Life-giving wine, that juice divine, 
My blissful days extended; 
But death, alas! has drained my glass, 
And all my pleasures ended. 
The social bowl my jovial soul 
Ere morn ne’er thought of quitting ; 
A jolly fellow, his wine, till mellow, 
To leave is not befitting. 
My thirsty bones, beneath these stones, 
Cry out for irrigation ; 
In pity o’er my tomb then pour 
A copious libation. 
i desl] Next fill a cup, and drink it up, 
Pure wine like ruby glowing ; 
This boon I pray, dear trav’ller, pay, 
cavods al When from this place you’re going. 
—HiOV—+ 2x 
bos .om bau Topers farewell | where’er you dwell, 
jenn oved TE bilve May wine be most abounding ; 
| Be all your lays of wine the praise, 
oui of be In Peeans loud resounding, 
pte ;anw orle LENTA. 
9fji ba ; 
Laois 
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