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ed, forgotten. Here then, in the character of this 

 virtuous divine, may we beholJ a noble pattern for 

 our imitation ! Here we find not only an obscure 

 life, but the attacks of ill health, and these continued 

 throughout much the greater part of life, met witli 

 an exemplary patience, perfect resignation, and 

 singular cheerfulness . Such are the glorious tri- 

 umphs of Christianity ; such is the true Christian 

 philosopher ! 



He is the happy man, whose life e'en now 



Shows somewhat of that happier life to come ; 



Who, doomed to an obscure but tranquil state 



Is pleased with it, and were he free to choose 



Would make his fate his choice ; whom peace, the fri&i 



Of virtue, and whom virtue, fruit of faith 



Prepare for happiness ; bespeak him one 



Content indeed to sojourn while he must 



Below the skies, but having there his home. 



The world o'erlooks him in her busy search 



Of objects more illustrious in her view ; 



And occupied as earnestly as she, 



Though more sublimely, he o'erlooks the world.' 



She scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not; 



He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain. 



He cannot skim the ground like summer birds^ 



Pursuing gilded flies ; and such he deems 



Her honours, her emoluments, her joys. 



Therefore in contemplation is his bliss, 



Whose power is such, that whom she lifts from earth 



She makes familiar with a heaven unseen, 



And shews him glories yet to be revealed. 



Not slothful he, tho* seeming unemployed, 



And censured oft as useless. Stillest stream* 



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