And permanent thy bliss, celestial, supreme.
When gracious refulgence bids the grave resign,
The Creator’s nursing protection be thine;
Then each perspiring ether shall joyfully rise
Transcendently good, supereminently wise.
CENTO.
AT NORTHBOROUGH, MASS.
On the tombstone of Rabbi Judah Monis, 40 years Hebrew Instructor in Harvard University, who was converted to Christianity in 1722, and died in 1764.
| A native branch of Jacob see, | |
| Which once from off its olive broke; | |
| Regrafted from the living tree, | Rom. xi. 17, 24. |
| Of the reviving sap partook. | |
| From teeming Zion’s fertile womb, | Isa. lxvi. 8. |
| As dewy drops in early morn, | Ps. cx. 3. |
| Or rising bodies from the tomb, | John v. 28, 29. |
| At once be Israel’s nation born. | Isa. lxvi. 8. |