The following lines were composed on the melancholly state of the family of Mr. Benjamin Sandborn, of Sandbornton who departed this life October 20, 1794, in the 49th year of his age;--he was seized with a nervous fever, continued twenty-one days, and during the whole time was deprived of reason:--he left a widow and fourteen children, to lament the loss of a kind husband and indulgent father.--Now take a view of his wife and children