RESIGNATION. Eliza Day Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T132359 Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool Printed by J. M'Creery 1798 p. [238]. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8°

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RESIGNATION . I HAVE a home , it is not here ; Then here would anxious cares be wrong ; For I must dwell for ever there ; And here I must not tarry long . I would but take a traveller's care , For what I meet , in this my road ; If coarse or fine should be my fare , My way with thorns or roses strew'd . If I my lov'd companions lose , Let me not loiter in my way ; Nor study here what I would choose ; As if my journey were my stay . For when I bid this earth farewell , And at my home my spirit lands , I shall find friends will never fail , And have a house that ever stands .