A higher seat, where no o'ershadowing cloud
Veileth the purpose of God's discipline.
And mid their glad embrace,—the gone before,—
The re-united ne'er to part,—behold
The teaching of no bitter precept lost,
Nor tear-sown seed fail of its harvest crown.
Wife of Govenor Ellsworth, and daughter of Noah Webster, LL.D., died at Hartford, August 23d, 1861.
Not with the common forms of funeral grief
We mourn for her who in the tomb this day