Alone, yet undismay'd, her post she kept,

Guiding a household in the same good ways

Of order and of hospitality.

So, when with mild decline, the sunset came,

Her powers still unimpair'd, all willingly

As a confiding and obedient child

Goes to its father's house, she went above.

[ HENRIETTA SELDEN COLT, ]

Daughter of Col. Samuel and Mrs. Elizabeth Colt, died January 20th, 1862, aged 7 months and 27 days.

THE MOURNING MOTHER.