Page:Life and character, of the late Reverend and learned Mr Thomas Boston.pdf/11

 acquainted with the originals, and especially with the Hebrew text. The world hath all along been a stepdame to me, and wheresoever I would have attemtped to nestle in it, there was a thorn of uneasiness laid for me. Man is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed from that quarter. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord."

ONG have I listne'd I might hear

Some more judicious pen,

For Boston raise their lofty notes

In melancholy strain,

Sure had the reverend doctor Watts

But ever heard him preach,

Or known his conversation good,

His pen he would have stretch:

And drawn his lovely character

As on the clearest brass;

In letters of the purest gold

Would shew'd what man he was.

Who from the sacred scripture field