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NM.764.002
30 Jan 1764:21 (282)
[On the death of Sir Matthew Hale] I shall here add not one
printed in his works, and therefore, probably, it was the
last he wrote; it is a paraphrase of Simeon's song; and
being taken from a soul copy, not revised by the author, the
reader must make allowance for whatever imperfections he may
discover in it:
Blessed creator! who, before the birth
Of time, or o'er the pillars of the earth
Were fix'd or form'd, didst lay that great design
Of man's redemption, and didst define,
. . . [30 more lines]
Thus he used to sing on the former Christmas-days. . .
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