Oh! may'st thou never know the ills that we

Have known, and shall know, ere we cease to be:

Be thou thy mother's comfort! thou wert blest

Wert thou, like her, the purest and the best.


ON HER DEATH,
At the Age of Two Years and Two Months.

Not long beside us did the cherub stay:

God's will be done! He gave and took away;

It seemed as if blest memories of heaven,

From whence she came, were to her visions given,