I’m very lonely now, Mary
For the poor make no new friends;
But oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends.
“Lament of the Irish Emigrant,”—Lady Dufferin.
Helena Selina (Sheridan) Lady Dufferin, a noted English poet, was born in 1807, and died June 13, 1867. Her songs and lyrics were collected into a volume, and edited by her son.
For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
Beat wild on this world’s shore,
And all our calm is in that balm
Not lost but gone before.
“Not Lost but Gone Before,”—Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (Hon. Mrs. Norton), a distinguished English author, was born in London, in 1808, and died in 1877. She wrote a pamphlet on “English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century,” “The Dream and Other Poems,” “A Voice from the Factories,” “Aunt Carry’s Ballads,” “Lives of the Sheridans,” etc.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers.
[2] Let everyone engage in the business with which he is best acquainted.
[3] The wounds of civil war are deeply felt.