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The following inscription has been attributed to Mrs Hemans but it does not appear
in her
collected works and it seems more than likely it is the translation by Mrs. Rose
Lawrence that she included in The Last Autumn at a Favourite Residence,
and Other Poems (2nd Edition, 1829) and which is reproduced here.
Inscription
ON THE TOMB OF MADAME LANGHANS
AT HINDELBANK, NEAR BERNE.
FROM THE GERMAN OF HALLER.
This celebrated monument represents her as ascending through the newly opening grave, bearing in her arms the infant whose birth occasioned her death.
—"Hark!—through the gloom the archangel's trumpet speaks!
Child of my anguish! from thy slumbers rise:
Thy Saviour's voice the grave's dread silence breaks,
And bids thee seek with me thy native skies."
