Died at Hartford, Sunday evening, September 9th, 1860, aged 80.
Oh sorrowing Daughter, left alone
In home’s deserted sphere,
Where every object group’d around,
In pleasant room, or garden’s bound
Is twined by links of sight or sound
With the lost Mother dear;
Yet take sweet thoughts thy grief to soothe
Of what she was below,
Her years to faithful duty given,
Her comfort in the Book of Heaven,
Her ready trust when life was riven,
To Christ, her Lord, to go.
And take sweet memories of the care
That smoothed her couch of pain,
The grateful love that o’er her way
Kept tender vigil, night and day,
And let its pure, reflected ray
Thy drooping heart sustain.
So shall thy faith the pang assuage
That heaves thy mourning breast;
For nearer brings each setting sun
Their blessed meeting who have won
The plaudit of the Judge, “Well done,
Come, enter to my rest.”
(Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney)
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