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EPITAPH ON H. WALMSLEY, ESQ.,

IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH, HANTS.

1 Oh! they shall ne'er forget thee, they who knew
2 Thy soul benevolent, sincere, and true;
3 The poor thy kindness cheered, thy bounty fed,
4 Whom age left shivering in its dreariest shed;
5 Thy friends, who sorrowing saw thee, when disease
6 Seemed first the genial stream of life to freeze,
7 Pale from thy hospitable home depart,
8 Thy hand still open, and yet warm thy heart!
9 But how shall she her love, her loss express,
10 Thy widow, in this uttermost distress,
11 When she with anguish hears her lisping train
12 Upon their buried father call in vain!
13 She wipes the tear despair had forced to flow,
14 She lifts her look beyond this vale of woe,
15 And rests (while humbled in the dust she kneels)
16 On Him who only knows how much she feels. [Page 142]

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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, pp. 141-142.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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