LXXVII.

_Filius e feretro matri redditur._ Luc. vii. 15.

Ergone tam subita potuit vice flebilis horror

In natalitia candidus ire toga?

Quos vidi, matris gemitus hos esse dolentis

Credideram; gemitus parturientis erant.

_Her son is delivered to his mother from the bier._

With such quick change could tear-bedew'd Dismay

Give birthday smiles, and walk in white array?

Heard I bereaved mother's wailings wild?

No; the blest cries of one who bears a child! R. WI.

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