On true Valour

Happy are they, who in these latter days,
Are fill'd with love, with gratitude and praise
To God, whose joyful Soúls do ever fly
With highest thoughts of their Eternity;
And by the actions of their lives declare,
That Faith in Christ, has conquer'd their despair,
For all past Crimes; and now with Death has made
Strict Friendship, never more to be afraid
Of his most sick alarms, in disguise,
Nor of his quickest Summons by surprize.
And thus the greatest Cowards in the Land,
For Valour may in competition stand.
With any Hero's of the former age,
Or those who now in a just cause engage,
When Courage is a Vertue to be brave,
And sets a Crown on such a Soldier's grave.