Let us mingle our prayers, asking God to bless,
With earnest, affectionate cry,
Our well-beloved Queen, in her new distress,
Her comfort our God can supply.
May she treasure the thought with tremulous praise,
That those who were lent, and not given,
Are joining with us in the angels' lays,
And keeping their Christmas in Heaven!
Montacute, Ilminster, Somerset, Christmas, 1878.
II.
MRS. HANNAH MORE.
Mrs. Hannah More spent her happy childhood at Stapleton, near Bristol; and her early girlhood in Bristol itself, as a pupil in the school of her three elder sisters.
Besides these three sisters, whose names were Mary, Betty, and Sally, there was also one younger than Hannah herself, named Patty.