To the Reverend Dr. L—. Occasion'd by his Sermon for the Support of the Charity-Children at Tunbridge-Wells, where the Collection was small. Mary Barber 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. T42622 519 p. 45 Barber, Mary, ca. 1690-1757. Poems on Several Occasions [poems only]. London Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1734 p. 141. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

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To the Reverend Dr. L— . Occasion'd by his Sermon for the Support of the Charity-Children at Tunbridge-Wells , where the Collection was small . In vain you shew a happy Nation , The Gospel's gracious Dispensation ; And plead from thence , to bring up Youth To early Piety and Truth . To unattentive Ears you preach , What Miseries alone can teach . 'Tis said , Hibernia boasts a Flood , Famous for petrefying Wood : Tunbridge , thy Min'ral Streams , we know , A stranger Transformation show : Their dire Effects the Wretched feel : Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel .