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 Concei'ning her Childre^i. 401

A prettier bird was no where feen,

Along the Beach among the treen.*

I have a third of colour white,

On whom I plac'd no fmall delight;

Coupled with mate loving and true,

Hath alfo bid her Dam adieu:

And where Aurora firft appears,

She now hath percht, to fpend her years ; f

One to the Academy flew [246]

To chat among that learned crew;

Ambition moves Itill in his breaft

That he might chant above the reft,

Striving for more then to do well,

That nightingales he might excell. J

My fifth, whofe down is yet fcarce gone

Is 'mongft the flirubs and bufhes flown.

And as his wings increafe in ftrength.

On higher boughs he'l pearch at length.

My other three, ftill with me neft,

Untill they'r grown, then as the reft.

Or here or there, they'l take their flight,

As is ordain'd, fo fliall they light.

1655 her husband preached at Wethersfield, Conn., but in 1660 he became the second minister of Hampton, N.H.
 * Dorothy, who married the Rev. Seaborn Cotton, Jane 25, 1654. In

t Sarah, who married Richard Hubbard, of Ipswich, a brother of the Rev. William Hubbard, the historian.

X "June 25, 1656, I was admitted into the vniverfity, M' Charles Chauncj being Prefident." — Rev. Simon Bradstreet's Manuscript Diary.

For an account of him, and of Mrs. Bradstreet's other children, see Introduction.

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