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GRAY'S POEMS.
Affection warm, and faith sincere, 5And soft humanity were there.[N 1]In agony, in death resign'd,[V 1]She felt the wound she left behind,Her infant image here below,Sits smiling on a father's woe: 10Whom what awaits, while yet he straysAlong the lonely vale of days?A pang, to secret sorrow dear;A sigh; an unavailing tear;Till time shall every grief remove, 15With life, with memory, and with love.

Variants

  1. ↑ Var. V. 7-10. In agony, &c.]
    "To hide her cares her only art,Her pleasure, pleasures to impart,In ling'ring pain, in death resign'd,Her latest agony of mindWas felt for him, who could not saveHis all from an untimely grave." MS.

Notes

  1. ↑ V. 6. "And soft humanity that from rebellion fled," Dryden. Thr. Aug. s. xii. "Bred to the rules of soft humanity," ditto All for Love, act ii. sc. i. Oh! soft humanity in age beloved," Pope. Epitaph ix. "The soft virtue of humanity," A. Smith, Mor. Sent. v. i. p. 310.
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