To the Reverend Dr L. Occasion'd by His Sermon for the Support of the Charity-Children at Tunbridge-Wells, Where the Collection Was Small

In vain you show a happy Nation,
The Gospel's gracious Dispensation;
And plead from thence, to bring up Youth
To early Piety and Truth.
To unattentive Ears you preach,
What Miseries alone can teach.

'Tis said, Hibernia boasts a Flood,
Famous for petrefying Wood:
Tunbridge , thy Min'ral Streams, we know,
A stranger Transformation show:
Their dire Effects the Wretched feel:
Thy Waters turn the Heart to steel.
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