Our wedded life most ever loudly prove;
In health or sickness, ever still the same—
To please, to soothe, and comfort, all your aim.
That you will mourn my loss I feel assured,
But let that loss with patience be endured.
And now to God, my Father and my Friend,
To Jesus, on whose merits I depend,
I would commend thee while yet my strength remain—
Farewell, beloved, until we meet again.”
Her body was attended to its final resting-place with great solemnity. The wild winds chant their mournful requiem over her grave, accompanied by the never-ceasing roar of old ocean, as she dashes against the rocky shores of this lovely Pacific isle.