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...is when they labour under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of their extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of...

...copy of verses, altered and improved, which he had written in 1731, by the bed-side of his mother;1 " O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from...

...drop by drop, and pants his life away." Again, of his filial tenderness for his aged mother. •• O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine; Be no...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And ke«p awhile one parent...

...We are continually reminded of those exquisite lines, which few sons have equally realized : . . • O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine : Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Mr, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; Explore the thought,...

...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...groan. O, grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,...

...thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he ce living virtue is with envy cursed, And the heat hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Eiplbre the thought, explain the asking eye,...

...mind familiar with the elegant and the tender, but a heart "tremblingly alive" with sensibility. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient acts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought,...