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In Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq. + 

I saw him sensitive in frame, + 

I knew his spirits low; + 

And wish’d him health, success, and fame: + 

I do not wish it now. + 

For these are all their own reward, + 

And leave no good behind; + 

They try us, oftenest make us hard, + 

Less modest, pure, and kind. + 

Alas! Yet to the suffering man, + 

In this his mortal state, + 

Friends could not give what Fortune can⁠— + 

Health, ease, a heart elate. + 

But he is now by Fortune foil’d + 

No more; and we retain + 

The memory of a man unspoil’d, + 

Sweet, generous, and humane; + 

With all the fortunate have not⁠— + 

With gentle voice and brow. + 

Alive, we would have chang’d his lot: + 

We would not change it now. + 