V.

No cares nor paffions here the bofom rend,
Here wafting pain and earthly troubles ceafe;
Here hopeless love and cruel hatred end,
And the world-weary trav'ler refts in peace.

VI.

Approach, vain child of fortune, pow'r, and fame!
Here learn a leffon from each speaking bust;
View on each lofty tomb the envied name

Of worldly greatness, levelled in the duft

VII.

How high each pers'nage once, how honor'd, read
How low, how little now, look down and fee;
Hence learn to know thyfelf; for 'tis decreed,
That thou as little and as low fhalt be ‡.

*Herein the rich, the honour'd, fam'd and great, See the falfe fcale of happiness complete.

POPE.

Man, know thyfelf; all wifdom centres there.

DR. YOUNG.

Duft thou art, and unto duft thou fhalt return; it is

appointed unto all men, once to die.

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GENESIS . 19.

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VIII.

Full many a hapless victim yet unborn,
O death all conq'ring! at thy feet muft fall,
Before the dawning of that glorious morn,
When thou fhalt yield, and God be all in all.

IX.

Then from the filent grave and op'ning tomb
Sheil each-reviving tenant lift his head *,
And this time honour'd abbey's crouded womb
Refignits treafures of illuftrious dead.

X.

E'en now, methinks, by faith's pervading eye
I fee his banner in the clouds difplay'd,

And the world's Saviour, from his throne on high,
Defcend in pureft robes of light array'd.

* Boaft not, O death! thy univerfal reign, For tho' all die, yet all fhall rife again.

I CORINTHIANS XV. 26

Grea

XI.

Great day of gladness to the good and just,
When they shall tafte the wonders of his love;
And rifing joyful from their beds of duft,
Afcend triumphant to the realms above ‡.

XII.

Then fhall the finish'd buft, the sculptur'd ftone,

And all the labour of the artist's hand,

Diffolve; and virtue's folid bafe alone

Amidst the genʼral wreck of matter stand

XIII.

Yea, fhould creation founder in the form,
And whelming perifh in this awful doom,,
Yet fhall celeftial virtue's angel form
Survive, and flourish in immortal bloom †,

1 Theffalonians, iv. 16, 17.

* Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids,
Her monuments fhall laft when Egypt's fall.

DR. YOUNG,

Poft funera virtus.

HOR.

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XIV.

Then fall the good refolve the gen'rous deed,
And noble conflict in religion's cause,

Be well rewarded; 'tis by heav'n decreed ‡,
And furely meet at judgment God's applaufe *..

XV.

O be it then our wifdom to fecure

Those glorious crowns that fhine for ever bright;
Crowns that adorn the faithful and the

pure, In the left manfions of eternal light t.

Wen Chrift to judge the world defcends,
This fall he fay to all his friends ;
"Come, bleed fouls! that kingdom fhare,
"My father did for you prepare

"Ere earth was founded: come and reign,
"Where endless life and joys remain."
Then to the wicked-" Curfed crew
"Depart, heav'n is no place for you:
"To thofe eternal burnings go,

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Whofe pangs the rebel angels know."

* John v. 29.

MATTHEW, Xxv. 34.-41.

+ 2 Timothy iv. 8. Rev. ii. 10.

TOMB

TOMBSTONE LECTURES;

ADDREST TO ALL.

A lecture filent, but of fovereign ufe.

DR. YOUNG

"WHEN I look on the tombs of the Great," fays MR. ADDISON, every emotion of crvy dies in me when I read the epitaphs of the Beautiful, every inordinate defire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents on a tombstone, my heart melts with compaffion; when I fee the tombs of parents themselves, I confider the vanity of grieving for thofe we muft quickly follow; when I fee Kings lying by those who depofed them; when I behold rival wits placed fide by fide, or the holy men that divided the world with their contefts and difputes; I reflect with forrow and aftonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind; when I read the feveral dates of those

who