To meet with “miserable comforters.”
To him that is afflicted, pity show;
Ye, who enjoy the smiles of Providence!
Your turn may come; then who will pity you,
If ever you have breath’d a word unkind
To one whose heart was breaking? God will laugh
At your calamity, and mock at all your fear!
Charleston, June 26, 1841.
FOOTNOTES
[5] Martha Day, daughter of President Day, of Yale College: and Jane L. Floyd, daughter of the late Rev. Laomi Floyd, and adopted daughter of the Rev. Dr. Palmer, of Charleston; who died in New Haven, where she was pursuing her studies.