Oliver Cromwell's Death Day

In memory of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, who was called home to be with King Jesus, this third day of September, 1658.

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: but the revenues of the wicked to sin. -Proverbs 10:16;

A good name is better than a good ointment, and the day of death, than the day that one is born. -Ecclesiastes 7:3, Geneva Bible (1599)

His grandeur he deriv’d from heaven alone,
For he was great e’er fortune made him so
And wars like mists that rise against the sun
Made him but greater seem, not greater grow.

No borrow’d bays his temple did adorn,
But to our Crown he did fresh jewels bring;
Nor was his virtue poison’d soon as born,
With the too early thoughts of being King.

-John Dryden, Heroick Stanzas consecrated to his Highness, Oliver.

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