Versos English Nathaniel Collins On the same Sorrowful occasion

English poem

On the same Sorrowful occasion

by (1815–1905)

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No Gifts of Nature, Art or Grace Where Death's Subpaena's issu'd out, Exempteth from the Burying Place; The so inlay'd, and most Devout NO'DIAH could have pleaded those, Had they been of Validity: But when Death comes with us to close, Alas, what do they Signify? True Grace indeed it does Avail, For those endowed there withal, That th' Second Death has no Entail On them; and yet their Bodies fall, Into the Prison of the Grave, Until the Goal-delivery thence; They in that Dormitory have A sweet Repose, and have no sense Of all the Worms and Rottenness Which there Triumph and make a Prey. Of their Vile Bodies they Possess Until the Resurrection Day; When they will off those Vermins shake And in a new and bright Array, Their Ascent to the Skies will make, Where CHRIST his Glory shall Display. NO'DIAH then will wear a Crown, At our JESUS Right Hand plac'd, Will Contribute to the Renown Where with that Juncture shall be grac'd.