The flourish of the annual spring, improved in a sermon preached at the Thursday lecture in Boston, May 3. 1739. By Mather Byles, D.D. Pastor of a church in Boston. [Three lines from Numbers]
Byles, Mather,1707-1788.
Boston, New-England : Re-printed by Thomas and John Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill,
1769.
"An hymn for the spring. The bloom of life fading in a happy death."--p. 24-25. Written in 1727, occasioned by the sudden deaths of Samuel Hirst, Thomas Lewis and Simon Bradstreet. First published as the work of "a very hopeful young scholar" in: Prince, Thomas. Morning health no security against the sudden arrest of death, 2nd ed. Boston, 1727. The poem appears under subtitle in Byles' Poems on several occasions, Boston, 1744.
Half-title: Dr. Byles's sermon on the spring of the year.
Running title: Meditations on the spring of the year.
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