To M.R.Life's visions are vanished, it's dreams are no more.Dear friends of my bosom, why bathed in tears?I go to my fathers; I welcome the shore,which crowns all my hopes, or which buries my cares.Then farewell my dear, my lov'd daughter, Adieu!The last pang in life is in parting from you.Two Seraphs await me, long … Continue reading A Death-Bed Adieu by President Thomas Jefferson