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Zion laments his loss! his honest tongue

Disdain'd to shield or palliate the wrong!
Yes, it could calm the troubled and oppress'd,

And soothe the mind with doubts and fears distress'd.

Dead is the saint, whose animated pen

Wrote for God's glory and the good of men;
By that he seems to live and teach again-
Thus with the church his spirit will remain.

Bold, learned, upright, zealous, and sincere,
His conduct made the pow'r of truth appear;
Yet what he was, to grace the praise is due:
Grace rear'd the tree on which such fruitage grew.

But mark the perfect man at his decease!

Behold 'tis calm serenity and peace:

The full ripe shock death's scythe has stricken down,
And HAWKER mounts to glory and a crown.

Soho.

STEPHEN.

ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. HAWKER.

My father! my father! the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof: and he saw him no more." 2 Kings ii. 12.

ATTEND, O Zion's sons attend!
The mandate from on high is giv'n;
The much lov'd pastor, father, friend,
Is called to his reward in heaven.
The tear of anguish quickly falls,

The church of God a loss sustains;
Our Jesus thus his gift recalls,

To join the ever blissful strains. The harp's unstrung, and tears will flow,

For one whose memory stands so

dear; Whose worth and merit here below

Prov'd him the pastor, friend
sincere.

Faith in a moment changed to sight,
With myriads round the throne he

stands;
Absorb'd in glory, cloth'd in light,

He flies to obey his Lord's com-
mands.

Methinks I hear the judge of all,
Welcome his herald there on high;
And in a voice of mercy call,

The faithful pastor to the sky.
"Enter thy Lord's eternal joy,
"With blood-wash'd millions ever

зing;

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