Volume 2

Good tidings, or, News from the farm. A poem.

  • Robert Bloomfield
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Good tidings, or, News from the farm. A poem. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To see a neighbour watch life’s silent sand, To hear the sigh, and feel the helping hand! But woe o’erspread the interdicted ground, And consternation seiz’d the hamlets round: ‘Cae the pest—its fated victim died; The foul contagion spread on ev'ry side; She, who had help’d the sick with kind regard, Bore home a dreadful tribute of reward, Home, whete six children, yielding to its pow’r, Gave hope and patience a most trying hour; One at her breast still drew the living stream, (No sense of danger mars an infant’s dream,) Yet ev’ry tongue exprest, and ev'ry eye, But vain the fiat,—Heav’n restor’d them all, And destin’d one of riper years to fall.
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