Nor can we stand beside thine open grave

Without a tear.

Yet still doth chasten'd faith

Ask help of God, to render back with praise

A soul to which He gave the victory.

[ MISS FRANCES WYMAN TRACY, ]

Adopted daughter of Mrs. William Tracy, died at New York, in 1860, aged 17.

O young and beautiful, thy step

Was light with fairy grace,

And well the music of thy voice