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by Unknown

The two kindred sisters, so long associated on earth, were re-united. The influence they have left behind them, embalmed in their hymns of praiseful worship, their songs of love and of noblest sentiment, and their stories of happy childhood and innocent manhood and womanhood, will long remain to bless the earth and constitute a continual incense to their memory.

Besides the published works named above, both Alice and Phoebe left at their death uncollected poems enough to give each name two added volumes. Alice also left the manuscript of a completed novel.

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PICTURES OF MEMORY.

(ALICE CARY.)

MONG the beautiful pictures

That hang on Memory’s wall,

Is one of a dim old forest,

That seemeth best of all: