Lydia H. Sigourney, Inscription on Tablet

Lydia H. Sigourney, Inscription on Tablet
by John Greenleaf Whittier

Written for the headstone of author Lydia Sigourney

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On her Memorial Tablet in Christ Church at Hartford, Conn.

She sang alone, ere womanhood had known
  The gift of song which fills the air to-day:
Tender and sweet, a music all her own
  May fitly linger where she knelt to pray.