Wrote the week before my Father was to be informed of my Brother's death. ‘Christian Carstairs’ 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. T76883 Carstairs, Christian. Original Poems. By a Lady, Dedicated to Miss Ann Henderson. A Tribute to Gratitude and Friendships. Edinburgh Andrew Shortrede 1786 p. 30.

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October 1764. Wrote the week before my Father was to be informed of my Brother's death . WHEN restless — nights and grief return , With anxious — mind and sickness worn , His silver hairs revere . In anguish — of a Father mourns , My Son — my son — no more returns , But left on distant plains . When bow'd with age — and trembling pale , Around him wait — nor prayers avail , But stand in weeping eyes . Thus storms do rend — the wint'ry sky ; See roofs and trees before them fly , Yet oft a ealm succeeds . As mildest show'rs a calm invite , In rest and peace his slumbers meet ; His guardian children by . In gentle exercise the day , And friends to charm the even away , In piety and ease .