O Grave! where is thy victory?

O Death! where is thy sting?"

ALEXANDER POPE.

"A THOUGHT OF DEATH.

"When on my sick Bed I languish,

Full of sorrow, fully of anguish,

*Fainting, gasping, trembling, crying,

Panting, groaning, speechless, dying,

My Soul just now about to take her flight

Into the Regions of eternal night;