With a resistless energy. She clasped

Her boy convulsively, and he had lived

To quicken, in its gifted elements,

The radiant spirit written on his brow,

But a high strengthening she knew not of,

Awakened her, and pressing down her lips

In a long fervent kiss upon his cheek,

She hushed him into peace, and lifting up

Her face to heaven, she breathed the name of God,

And laid him down—for ever!