Virtue. Catherine Rebecca Grey, Lady Manners 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. T173070 Manners, Catherine Rebecca, Lady, 1766 or 1767-1852. Poems by Lady Manners. Second edition. London John Bell 1793 p. [78]. 126p.

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Virtue . BLOOMING Beauty , brilliant Wit , Shall with life's short moment flit : Brighter Virtue must endure Everlasting and secure . That shall gild our solemn hours , Strew our thorny path with flowers , Dry Affliction's rising tear , Ease the mind of every fear . Even to our latest breath , In the cold embrace of Death , When each hope of life shall fail , When the quivering lip grows pale , When the languid pulse beats low , When the cheek forgets to glow , When the heavy eye is clos'd , And once-busy frame compos'd ; Even then shall Virtue's voice Bid the Christian's soul rejoice ; Bid her look beyond the gloom Of the dread-inspiring tomb , Wrapt in shades of endless night , To the realms of lasting light , Where a Saviour's boundless love Death for ever shall remove .