In vain Maria, we the healing Art Implor’d his balmy succours to impart: The healing Art, despairing of his power That well he knew diminish’d every hour, With mournful visage from thy couch withdrew, While hence to bliss thy gentle Spirit flew. And sure, meek Saint, the just decree of Heav’n To thee no Indian Paradise has giv’n; No verdant hill surrounded by the floods; No flow’ry valley in the depth of woods; Thou sought’st thy native place, the seats divine; The native place of ev’ry soul like thine! Had Angels on thy bosom fix’d their eyes They ne’er had seen a faulty thought arise: All there was guiltless as a Hermit’s dream, All mild as is the Sun’s departing beam: No wayward passions with malignant strife Disturb’d the peaceful current of thy life: The soft affections, loving and belov’d Alone its surface tremulously mov’d. To live as Virtue bids is fame most high; The second praise is virtuously to die; And both to thee are due—as on the bed Of tedious pain thou long reclin’d thy head, Calm resignation ever smoothed thy face, And unto sickness lent a languid grace; While Hope and Faith, fair sister Seraphs near, Still whisp’ring holy comfort in thine ear, With radiant finger pointed out the way That leads the good to everlasting day. Tho’ thou among the bright ethereal choir Again behold’st thy much regretted Sire, No perfect bliss thy tender heart can know, Reflecting pensive on thy Mother’s woe; For ah! thy piercing glance still sees her mourn In pious melancholy o’er thy urn, Yet let not this invade thy breast with care; For Hope and Faith, the same seraphic pair That brought to all thy sufferings sweet relief, Have stay’d below to mitigate her grief: Ev’n now they kindly check the rising sigh And close the opening sluices of her eye, Nor will they quit her till from sorrow free, She joins in Heav’n thy sainted Sire and thee. We may here further observe, that among the friends and correspondents of Dr. Lidderdale are found the names of _Dr. Heberden_, _Dr. R. Taylor_, and _Sir John Pringle_. Between him and the latter however there was a kind of relationship, by the marriage of a sister of his to Sir John’s brother, the issue of which marriage was the late _admiral Pringle_. Sir John used to correspond with the family long after the death of Dr. Lidderdale, and so we presume did also the admiral, as miss Lidderdale and he were so nearly related. But we are not sure that that lady and her mother received many favours or much assistance from that quarter. * * * * *