_Sic dilexit mundum Deus, ut Filium morti traderet._ Joan. iii. 16.
Ah nimis est, illum nostrae vel tradere vitae:
Guttula quod faceret, cur facit oceanus?
Unde et luxuriare potest, habet hinc mea vita:
Ample et magnifice mors habet unde mori.
_God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son...._
Ah, 'tis too much to give Him for our sake:
A drop might serve, why then an ocean take?
Here may my life expatiate gloriously--
Amply, magnificently, Death may die. R. WI.