Slight was the Warning, and as slight the Need,
When the pure Soul was from the Body freed;
When the griev’d Wife and antient Parent shed
Their Tears of envying Anguish o’er the Dead.
They saw before them but a length of Woes,
And long’d for Death, and languish’d for repose. 730
But the fair Child, their pity and their pride,
Their sad affections to the World allied,
And on their natures’ Tenderness she wrought; }
Till they some transient fits of Pleasure caught }