And leaves pale Sorrow weeping by the hearth!

Mrs. Norton.

So live, that when thy summons comes,

The innumerable caravan that moves

To that mysterious realm, where each shall take

His chamber in the silent halls of death,

That thou, sustained and soothed, approach thy grave

Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch

Around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

W. C. Bryant.