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Thou little wondrerous Miniature of Man
Formd by unerring Wisdoms perfect Plan
Thou little Stranger from eternal Night
Emerging into Lifes immortal Light.

2.
Thou Heir of Worlds unknown thou Candiatae
For an important everlasting State
Where this young Embryo shall its Powers expand
Inlarging ripening Still but never Stand.

3.
This glimmering Spark of Being just now Struck
From nothing by the all creating Rock
To immortality shall flame & burn
While Suns & Stars to native Darkness turn.

4.
Thou shalt the Rains of the World survive
And through the Rounds of endless Ages live
How thou art born into an anxious State
Of dubious Trials for thy future State
How thou are listed in the War of Life
The Prize immense & oh! severe the Strife.

5.
Another Birth awaits the when the Hour
Arrives that lands the on the eternal Shore
And oh! tis nigh with winged haste twill come

6.
Thy Cradle rocks towards the neighbouring Tomb.
When shall Immortals Say a Son is born
While the as Death [unspoken?] Mortals [move?]
Or Sink from deep to deeper Miseries
Assend Perfections everlasting Seale
Or still defend from Gulph to Gulph in Hell.

7.
Thou Embryo Angel or thou infant Fiend
A being just began but neer to end
What boding Fears a Fathers Heart torment
Trembling & anxious for the grand Event

8
Lost thy young Soul so late from Heaven bestowd
Forget the Father & forget her God
Lest while imprisond in this House of Clay
To tyrant Lusts she fall a Helpless Prey

9
And lest defending still from bad to worse
Her immortallity shall prove her Curss
Maker of Souls evert so dire a Doom
Or snatch her back to native nothings Gloom.

Finis.

A Poem composd by Mr Davis President
of New Jersey College on the Birth of one
of his Children.