No priestly requiem is heard,
Hushed is the voice of prayer,
She lies in a dishonoured grave-
The suicide lies there!
And did no funeral hymn arise?
Hark to the pitying wall
That bursts from every mother’s heart,
Who hears that dreadful tale.
And prayer is there-but mutter’s deep,
By brothers with clench’d fists;
“The brand of Cain be on his brow,
Wander he where he lists!”
O God of heaven! powerless to aid
Are all our human laws!
Infinite judge of right! to thee
We leave the victim’s cause.
(Caroline Carleton)
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