Death's doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse, the friendly contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of twenty four plates, designed and etched by R. Dagley / [Richard Dagley].

  • Dagley, Richard, -1841
Date:
1826
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Credit: Death's doings; consisting of numerous original compositions, in prose and verse, the friendly contributions of various writers; principally intended as illustrations of twenty four plates, designed and etched by R. Dagley / [Richard Dagley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oh Death! thou com’st to me as when Thy step was o’er the tide. And thou unveild’st thy form to men. Where He, th’ Athenian died ; Or, gentler, when with vigils sweet. Upon the midnight air. Thou com’st where chasten’d souls repeat Their last and cheeriest prayer. I see the land where hope hath made Her everlasting rest. And peace, that was long wont to fade. Leaves not my soothed breast; The strains that o’er my slumbers hung. The forms my pathway crost. The lov’d in thought—each perish’d one. The sear’d heart loved, and lost— They are around me, bright’ning still. From their ethereal clime. Not clouded, as before, with ill. With mortal woe or crime— And far away with them I track. Thy deep, unfathom’d sea— Hail to the hour that calls us back ! Pale Vision, hail to thee ! H.S.