Poems of religion and society.: With notices of his life and character by John Davis and T. H. Benton.

THE WANTS OF MAN. XX1II. I want the voice of hoiest praise To follow me behind, And to be thought in future days The friend of human kind; That after ages, as they rise, Exulting may proclaim, In choral union to the skies, Their blessings oni my name XXIV. These are the wants of mortal man; I cannot want them long, For life itself is but a span, And earthly bliss a song. My last great want, absorbing all, Is, when beneath the sod, And summon'd to my final call, The mercy of my God. XXV. And oh! while circles in my veins Of life the purple stream, And yet a fragment small remains Of nature's transient dream, My soul, in humble hope unscar'd, Forget not thou to pray, That this thy WANT may be prepared To meet the Judgment Day. .X, 2;I

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Poems of religion and society.: With notices of his life and character by John Davis and T. H. Benton.
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