on a blank leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem 
THE EXCURSION, upon hearing of the death of the 
late Vicar of Kendal.

To public notice, with reluctance strong,
Did I deliver this unfinished Song;
Yet for one happy issue;--and I look
With self-congratulation on the Book
Which pious, learned, MURFITT saw and read;--
Upon my thoughts his saintly Spirit fed;
He conn'd the new-born Lay with grateful heart;
Foreboding not how soon he must depart;
Unweeting that to him the joy was given
Which good men take with them from Earth to Heaven.