Wilt thou receive his parting breath?
Wilt thou repress each struggling sigh,
And cheer with smiles the bed of death?
PERCY.
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THE CHURCH.
Several Meanings of the word Church - The Building so called, here intended - Its Antiquity and Grandeur - Columns and Aisles - The Tower: the Stains made by Time compared with the mock antiquity of the Artist - Progress of Vegetation on such Buildings - Bells - Tombs: one in decay - Mural Monuments, and the Nature of their Inscriptions - An Instance in a departed Burgess - Churchyard Graves - Mourners for the Dead - A Story of a betrothed Pair in humble Life, and Effects of Grief in the Survivor.
“WHAT is a Church?” - Let Truth and Reason speak,
They would reply, “The faithful, pure, and meek;
From Christian folds, the one selected race,