Thy honor'd memory, recording chiefly

Things light or trivial. Better 'twere to tell,

How with a nobler zeal, and warmer love,

She served her heavenly Master. I have seen

That reverend form bent down with age and pain,

And rankling malady. Yet not for this

Ceased she to praise her Maker, or withdrew

Her trust in Him, her faith, an humble hope—

So meekly had she learn'd to bear her cross—

For she had studied patience in the school