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REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 63 



The solemn spectacle is o'er, 



Yet, bowed with grief, you still deplore, 



With pining anguish, mourn. 

 Forever flow your streaming eyes. 

 Your bosom heaves, with deepest sighs. 

 For her who can't return. 



She is no more ! The fatal blow 

 Filled every breast with poignant woe. 



Then what must Stella feel ! 

 Whose heart, by strong affection swayed. 

 With fond affection was repaid, 



And friendship's warmest zeal. 



On her was every grace bestowed. 

 Soft from her lips persuasion flowed, 



And charmed each listening ear. 

 Like music through the veins it thrilled. 

 Each breast with sweetest rapture filled, 



And smoothed the brow of care. 



But now to parent earth consigned, 

 Oh ! where shall we her equal find, 



The joys of life to crown ! 

 Her loved remains in dust reposed. 

 Her radiant eyes forever closed. 



Where mildest influence shone. 



Oh, could the grateful Muse's strain 

 Console the grief, assuage the pain. 



Which fills your tender breast — 

 From sorrow could she draw a smile. 

 Or keen affection's pangs beguile. 



The thought would make her blest! 



Yet can, dear maid, Religion charm 

 Death of its stinii, despair disarm: 



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To THAT RESOURCE APPLY. 



Religiox calms the pangs of grief, 

 In HER alone we find relief, 

 When all we value die. 



But turn, oh, turn your weeping eyes 

 To where her lovely infant lies 



That claims a mother's care ! 

 A mother's care she'll never know. 

 But Stella will that love bestow, 



And guard her infant years. 



Sweet, smiling babe ! Oh, may thy brec.st 

 With peace and harmony be blest ! 

 And may thy Friend, thy parent see 

 Thy mother's graces bloom in thee, 

 And all HER virtues share.* 



* This prayer was abundantly granted. The child, who survived, became, some- 

 where I suppose about the year 1800, the wife of Mr. Georr^e Willing, and lived till 

 the year 1852, I think; honored and beloved by as many as ever knew her.- -H. W. S. 



