Tixall Poetry.
211
A martyr's daughter weds a confessor!
When innocence and truth became a crime,
By voluntary banishment,
He left our sacrilegious clime,
And to a forrain country went;
Or rather, there, by Providence was sent:
For Providence designed him to reside,
Where he, from his abundant stock,
Might nourish God's afflicted flock,
And, as his steward, for their wants provide.
A troop of exiles on his bounty fed,
They sought, and found with him their daily bread;
As the large troop increast, the larger table spread.
The cruse ne're emptied, nor the store
Decreas'd the more;
For God supplied him still to give, who gave in God's own stead.
Thus, when the raging dearth.
Afflicted all the Egyptian earth;
When scanty Nile no more his bounty dealt,
And Jacob, even in Canaan, famine felt;
God sent a Joseph out before;
His father and his brethren to restore:
When innocence and truth became a crime,
By voluntary banishment,
He left our sacrilegious clime,
And to a forrain country went;
Or rather, there, by Providence was sent:
For Providence designed him to reside,
Where he, from his abundant stock,
Might nourish God's afflicted flock,
And, as his steward, for their wants provide.
A troop of exiles on his bounty fed,
They sought, and found with him their daily bread;
As the large troop increast, the larger table spread.
The cruse ne're emptied, nor the store
Decreas'd the more;
For God supplied him still to give, who gave in God's own stead.
Thus, when the raging dearth.
Afflicted all the Egyptian earth;
When scanty Nile no more his bounty dealt,
And Jacob, even in Canaan, famine felt;
God sent a Joseph out before;
His father and his brethren to restore:
