Though in his bed she sleeps,
And broidering Myrtle richly green
O'er her cold pillow creeps:
She hath a bower where angels dwell,
A mansion with the blest,
For Jesus whom she trusted here,
Receiv'd her to His rest.
[ REV. DR. JAMES W. ALEXANDER, ]
Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York, died at the Virginia Springs, July, 1859.
The great and good. How startling is the knell