Volume 2 — INSCRIBED ON THE MONUMENT OF THE Rev. WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS, IN REPTON CHURCH. HE DIED 1800.
Reading edition
Reader, if thee each sacred worth inspire, The Patriot’s ardour, and the Poet’s fire; Unsullied honour, friendship’s generous glow, Sky-pointing hope, that smiles on finite woe Such Stevens was, and thy congenial tear Drops on the Scholar,—Bard,—and Christian’s bier.