Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788)


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First Line: Could then the babes from yon unshelter'd cot
Last Line: Shall gild their passage to eternal rest.
Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


COULD then the Babes from yon unshelter'd cot
Implore thy passing charity in vain?
Too thoughtless Youth! what tho' thy happier lot
Insult their life of poverty and pain!
What tho' their Maker doom'd them thus forlorn
To brook the mockery of taunting throng,
Beneath th' Oppressor's iron scourge to mourn,
To mourn, but not to murmur at his wrong!
Yet when their last late evening shall decline,
Their evening cheerful, tho' their day distrest,
A Hope perhaps more heavenly bright than thine,
A Grace by thee unsought, and unpossest,
A Faith more fix'd, a Rapture more divine,
Shall gild their passage to eternal rest.





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