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��/72 tnemory of my dear grand-child [249]

Anne Bradftreet.*

Who deceajed June 20. 1669. being three years and

/even Aloneths old.

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��Ith troubled heart & trembling hand I write,

��The Heavens have chang'd to Ibrrow my delight. How oft with disappointment have I met, When I on fading things my hopes have fet? Experience might 'fore this have made me wife, To value things according to their price: Was ever ftable joy yet found below ? Or perfe6t blifs without mixture of woe. I knew fhe was but as a withering flour. That's here to day, perhaps gone in an hour; Like as a bubble, or the brittle glafs. Or like a fhadow turning as it was.

tween 3 «& four jeares old dyed. He buried y" first j* euer had (w'ch alfo was a daughter) about 4 yeares fince. The Ld teach him, and me, and all who it efpec. concernes good thereby." — Rev. Simon Bradstreet's Manuscript Diary.
 * "June. 20. 69 Mj B"" Samuel' eldeft child which was a daughter, be-

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