<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=114991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Mrs. Johanna Lupton</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her soul, unsetter'd from the bands of clay,<br>With swift-wing'd haste to heaven takes its way;<br>She tow'rs the æriel space on wings divine,<br>While weeping friends surround the bloodless shrine:<br>The soften'd heart there breathes a tender sigh,<br>And grief sits pensive in each moisten'd eye:<br>Suppress the rising tear, and with her sing,<br>'Death, where's thy vict'ry? Grave, where is thy sting?'<br>Sing how with God she rests in endless day,<br>All tears of sorrow ever wip'd away;<br>'Sing how by tortures heav'n her faith has try'd;<br>'The saint endur'd it, tho' the woman dy'd!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, nature will prevail! 'tis all in vain:<br>Say, sacred muse, what loss do we sustain?<br>She wip'd the eye of grief---it ceas'd to flow;<br>Her pitying heart still felt another's woe;<br>Indigent virtue shar'd her earthly store;<br>She call'd herself God's steward for the poor:<br>A duteous child; a faithful, loving wife;<br>Serene in death, as tranquil was her life:<br>A pious mother---mother now no more;<br>Her soft solicitude and cares are o'er:<br>Sister and friend, each tender name in one.<br>And is she gone? but heav'n's great will be done!<br>Like Noah's dove, the wand'rer found no rest,<br>Till in his ark her Saviour took the guest.<br>Oh may we meet her on the eternal shore,<br>Where death shall never separate us more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ann+Eliza+Bleecker">Ann Eliza Bleecker</a> from <i>The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=114991" data-title="On Mrs. Johanna Lupton de Ann Eliza Bleecker" data-description="Her soul, unsetter'd from the bands of clay,/With swift-wing'd haste to heaven takes its way;/She tow'rs the æriel space on wings divine,/While weeping friends surround the bloodless shrine:/The soften'd heart there breathes a tender sigh,/And gr..."></div> </div> </div>

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