BEREAVEMENTS.
"You have had a great loss" said Cowper in an affecting letter to a bereaved friend, "and a loss which admits of no consolation, except such as will naturally suggest itself to you; such I mean as the Scripture furnishes. We must all leave., or be left; and it is the circumstance of all other:that makes long life the least desirable, that other.go while we stay, till at last, we find ourselves alone, like a tree on a hill-top."
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 March 1855, Page 56
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80BEREAVEMENTS. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 March 1855, Page 56
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