Upon Hearing Of The Death Of The Late Vicar Of Kendal <br /> <br />TO public notice, with reluctance strong, <br />Did I deliver this unfinished Song; <br />Yet for one happy issue;--and I look <br />With self-congratulation on the Book <br />Which pious, learned, MURFITT saw and read;-- <br />Upon my thoughts his saintly Spirit fed; <br />He conned the new-born Lay with grateful heart-- <br />Foreboding not how soon he must depart; <br />Unweeting that to him the joy was given <br />Which good men take with them from earth to heaven.<br /><br />William Wordsworth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-written-on-a-blank-leaf-in-a-copy-of-the-author-s-poem/
