stone4.tex

   1 % Stone 4
   2 %
   3 % CC0 1.0.
   4 % http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
   5 %
   6 % A replica of a stone inscribed by Thomas Child at Gilgal Sculpture Garden.
   7
   8 \input{preamble}
   9
  10 \begin{document}
  11
  12 \vspace*{2em}
  13 \noindent
  14 {\initcapfont{48}{51}H}%
  15 {\gilgalfont{27}{28}ow blest is he who crowns in shades like these,\\
  16 \hspace*{0.2em}A youth of labor with an age of ease;\\
  17 \hspace*{0.4em}Who quits the world where strong temptations try,\\
  18 \hspace*{0.6em}And since tis hard to combat learns to fly!\\
  19 \hspace*{0.8em}For him no wretches born to work and weep,\\
  20 \hspace*{1.0em}Explore the mine or tempt the dangerous deep;\\
  21 \hspace*{1.2em}No surly porter stands in guilty state,\\
  22 \hspace*{1.4em}To spurn imploring famine from the gate;\\
  23 \hspace*{1.6em}But on he moves to meet his latter end,\\
  24 \hspace*{1.8em}Angels around befriending vertues friend;\\
  25 \hspace*{2.0em}Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,\\
  26 \hspace*{2.2em}While resignation gently slopes the way;\\
  27 \hspace*{2.4em}And all his prospects brightening to the last,\\
  28 \hspace*{2.6em}His heaven commences ere this world is past.\par}
  29
  30 \end{document}