Classic Poem

Hence may we Calculate the Tenderness
Thou didst Express
To all, whom thou didst with thy Friendship bless:
To think of Passion by new Mothers bore
To the young Offspring of their Womb,
Or that of Lovers to what they Adore,
Ere Duty it become:
We should too mean Ideas frame,
Of that which thine might justly claim,
And injure it by a degrading Name:
Conceive the tender Care,
Of guardian Angels to their Charge assign'd,
Or think how dear
To Heaven Expiring Martyrs are;
These are the Emblems of thy mind,
The only Types to shew how thou wast kind.