Life’s prime maturity, and one alone,

Fair Edith, ranking fourth in age, hath been

Translated to the heavens. One spring hath passed

On its gay flowery path, since earth received,

When twenty summers had adorned her brow,

Her mortal vestments, and the spirit fled

To the bright regions of immortal life.

The first-born bears his father’s honoured name;

Matilda, Alfred, Eva, and Lucrece,

Mark out the rest, and each one duly shares