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Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge (第2/2页)
are likewise truly blest: but oh! what crowds in ev'ry land, all wretched and forlorn, thro' weary life this lesson learn, that man was made to mourn. “many and sharp the num'rous ills inwoven with our frame! more poiill we make ourselves, regret, remorse, and shame! and man, whose heav'ed face the smiles of love adorn,— man's inhumanity to man makes tless thousands mourn! “see yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, so abject, mean, and vile, who begs a brother of the earth to give him leave to toil; and see his lordly fellow-worm the poor petition spurn, unmindful, tho' a weeping wife and helpless offspring mourn. “if i'm design'd yon lordling's slave, by nature's law design'd, why was an indepe wish e'er planted in my mind? if not, why am i subject to his cruelty, or s? or why has man the will and pow'r to make his fellow mourn? “yet, let not this too much, my son, disturb thy youthful breast: this partial view of human-kind is surely not the last! the poor, oppressed, ho man had never, sure, been born, had there not been some repense to fort those that mourn! “o death! the poor man's dearest friend, the ki and the best! wele the hour my aged limbs are laid with thee at rest! the great, the wealthy fear thy blow from pomp and pleasure torn; but, oh! a blest relief for those that weary-laden mourn!”
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