"This said, she gently, with a single sigh, "To breathe in pain among the dead-alive.” 66 The bell then call'd these ancient men to pray, Again!" said Benbow,-" tolls it every day? "Where is the life I led ?"-He sigh'd and walk'd his way. THE BOROUGH. LETTER XVII. THE HOSPITAL AND GOVERNORS. Blessed be the man who provideth for the sick and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in time of trouble. Christian Charity anxious to provide for future as well as present Miseries-Hence the Hospital for the Diseased-Description of a recovered Patient-The Building: how erected-The Patrons and Governors-Eusebius-The more active Manager of Business a moral and correct Contributor-One of different Description-Good, the Result, however intermixed with Imperfection. THE BOROUGH. LETTER XVII. THE HOSPITAL AND GOVERNORS. AN ardent spirit dwells with christian love, Will not be sought, waits not for want to plead, And plans relief for coming miseries. Hence yonder building rose: on either side Far stretch'd the wards, all airy, warm, and wide; And every ward has beds by comfort spread, And smooth'd for him who suffers on the bed: There have all kindness, most relief,-for some Is cure complete,-it is the sufferer's home: Each accidental mischief man sustains; Fractures and wounds, and wither'd limbs and lame, Have here attendance-here the sufferers lie, And heal'd with rapture live, or soothed by comfort die. 'Tis summer now; all objects gay and new, He thinks what pain, what danger they enclose; At every view he meditates a prayer: |