Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829.
By Epitaph of Mornai du Plessis, Imitated from the Latin of GrotiusAnthony Bleecker (17701827)
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Nobler than blood of proud ancestral line;
Skill in the laws of men, and truths of Heaven,
Maturest counsel; eloquence divine,
With Mornai here repose;—his tomb their hallow’d shrine.