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P. 6. The Mr P., on whose little daughter this poem was composed, was probably Mr Persall, brother to Sir W. Persall, of Canwell, in Staffordshire, who married Frances Aston, second daughter of the first Lord Aston.

The comparison, in the second stanza, of the essence of roses, extracted by the still, to the soul of the child received into heaven, is fanciful and pretty, and poetically expressed.

As Plato called God the "Great Geometer," from the order, regularity, and contrivance, which are visible in the universe, so, when considered as the Author of Nature, and the Ruler of the Elements, he may, with equal propriety, be styled the "Almighty Chemist."