The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1773-07-22
or the MASSACHUSETTS, D r Y.

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For tic MASSACHUSETTS D r Y.
II Fnnerai Ehgy on The unfortunate 1cot5 ef
tie asrtrGbls i4r. JOIN PADDOCK,
fsrmey m,mbtr If Hazard College, SUbS
lvaj Lafely dyouzta at Cambridge.
vX3EEN growing genius lpre.d' its Ring
w charms,
To gcrial fun beams. and 70 vernai ca'm';
Or Ionl. prophetic feel rev pl'sIures rife,
And gar, ful profpe6s greet our rsp'u.'d eyes.
In thought. we fec il mount future Rage,
And fpresd its g!oTies to he cor irg age.
But when cold advert: winds unie their breath
To bl,R It's veidure with the damps of death,
In vain, cur fou., the tide of gric refrain,
OR eye. emit the fwelirg ftreams in vain
New foods fucceed to thofe a!ready paR
Add bri:y torrents follow them in hate
Tears icorn their narrow banks, and wi h ut
bounds,
Thy flow, in triumph, DER their anguiih' d
mrudds
o Paddock fuch was thy un,imely fate (;
we mourn for thee; yet mourn, alas, TOO late /;
Death cruel death too falt has bound his chain
TOT tCsfbe AnANAiauh bCd ~ O''u5 a oih
Thy foul, NV fosnrg in celehil sir,
To claim thy corpfe, and be tenant there.
Ye rocks, We mountsins, woods, rebound my
voice,
In dol'rous accents, mules. tell your lofs.
Let GLENN, murmuring POUNDS iGfo' m the air,
That Learnirg's lol her youngeR, darling care:
Let air re -eccho back the mouluful found.
And notes of angulh creep along the ground.
Forbear, We winds, 70 lend your uielels aid,
Heuceforth the winds and forms By me be
made:
Thou fun, ablorb the oceans weary tide
BY me, the ccean's place fhsll be luPPlyd:
NV iigh, fhlll breed the forms, my tears the
floods,
Nor thank the bounty tf in5ugent gods.
Fer death had laid thy riiins honours low,
And, paa recall had ~insd the dreadful blow,
Attended devils in fell council met.
With venseful furies, eHgar for thy fate,
Here the finn cobweh thread Of life appears.
And fate flands ready with her iharpend ihears
Supreme in guilt, commii!ioned BY the throng,
FIsll's blaekeit demon fercely Pres'd along
With r,se and envy 6nn'd, that we below,
The rapt'rous pleafares Of thy life fhould know
Blood.brestking fury took its baieful way,
And with his pois' nous nature foul'd the day,
AT fish, of him the fun refus'd bis beams.
Maignly fhot by turns his fullen CLEANS.
On river: banks then ihook the frightened
reeds
Harvndia's senii groan'd, and hung their
heacs;
And igh'd the mufes, nymPhs and ver- j
l.
Death hurl'd his deadly lance--all nature weps;
And on the ground the dsmpS of horror crePt.
Thus Itands the royal ok, of woods The pride.
And, with contempt, lUrveys the treesby rs iide +:
Thus fudder fall his verdant honcuTs low,
And the wide foret ecchoe: at the blow.
Tho bloody heli-hounds claim the mu der Gus
deed,
Yet were they not the tools Of heaven decreed :
Thy precious life was not the fury's prey;
But by juit heaven. in pity fnatch'd away;
In pity for thy fouls too great for earth,
Nor meant for US, for heavily joys by birth.
May glory's clarion confecrateto fame
Thy worthy, ever, ever honourd name,
My muie TOO ioaring on the esgle-wiEe
Oh may fhe rife to where the Angels ling.
Thy name fhsll hourIlh-be Of time the boait'
And live immortal. when The mufe Is loft.
NERENS HHrgarSis FiffSf.