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16 Joseph's love to his Father.

Filial affection's to old Jacob good,

When Canaan's land lay destitute of food,

Then Joseph kind his aged father fed,

When thousands daily starved for want of bread ;

His love expressed with mind sedate and calm,

Then with rich spices did his corpse embalm ;

When breathless lay upon a bed of down,

He treats blest Jacob, father of renown ;

Falls on his clay and with a kind embrace,

Salutes the late most venerable face

Of Pious Jocob, now growing stiff and cold.

It must be so when life is charged to mould,

Plenty of tears did from his eye balls flow.

To show mankind he did his duty know,

That nonght's too much to pay a parent dear,

From children that the awful GOD do fear.