My darling boy! I must not love thee so;
Dear miniature of her I loved and lost,
I’ll try to feel that I may lose thee too!
Yet, joyful thought! such treasures cannot die,
The time will come I’ll find them all again.
January 4, 1841.
WHERE IS THE BETTER COUNTRY?
Where is the better country, where?
Ye who have found it, lead me there;
I long have sought a happy home,