For tender parents, friends, relations kind,
A virtuous spouse and blooming offspring;
For plentious food and raiment. My soul submit,
Think the decrees of Heaven are wise and just,
Most beneficial to thyself, and all.
Father! thy will is best and be it done.
ELMINA; Or the Flower that never Fades.
Fresh from their native beds I bring
These images of youth and spring;
Sweet flowers, whose bloom too quickly past,