Versos English Cotton Mather Epitaph

English poem

Epitaph

by (1663–1728)

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Dummer, the Shephard Sacrific'd By Wolves, because the Sheep he Priz'd; The Orphans Father, Churches Light, The Love of Heaven, of Hell the Spite; The Countreyes Gapman, and the Face That Shone, but Knew it not, with Grace.

DUMMER, a Wise man of the East, Gone to see JESUS, in His Rest: Hunted by Divels, but Reliev'd By Angels, and on High Reciev'd: