StoryTitle("caps", "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet,
a Practiser in Physic") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As on we toil from day to day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By sudden blasts or slow decline ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our social comforts drop away. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Well tried through many a varying year,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "See Levet to the grave descend, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Officious, innocent, sincere, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet still he fills affection's eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Obscurely wise and coarsely kind;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor, letter'd Arrogance, deny ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy praise to merit unrefined. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When fainting nature call'd for aid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And hov'ring death prepared the blow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His vig'rous remedy display'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The pow'r of art without the show. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Misery's darkest cavern known, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His useful care was ever nigh, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And lonely Want retired to die.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No summons mock'd by chill delay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No petty gain disdain'd by pride; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The modest wants of ev'ry day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The toil of ev'ry day supplied. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His virtues walk'd their narrow round,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor made a pause, nor left a void; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sure th' Eternal Master found ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The single talent well employ'd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The busy day, the peaceful night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Unfelt, uncounted, glided by;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His frame was firm—his powers were bright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though now his eightieth year was nigh. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then with no fiery throbbing pain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No cold gradations of decay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Death broke at once the vital chain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And freed his soul the nearest way.", "") ?>
Poet("Samuel Johnson", "1709–1784") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>