LINESSUGGESTED AT THE FUNERAL OF A LOVELY CHILD, AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, CHARLESTOWN, NOVEMBER 20, 1856.
LOVELY little Fannie,
How can I gaze to-day
Upon thy precious form
Of most exquisite clay?
I did not think, when last
I pressed thy tiny hand,
That you would soar so soon,
Up to the spirit-land.
How can I gaze to-day
Upon thy precious form
Of most exquisite clay?
I did not think, when last
I pressed thy tiny hand,
That you would soar so soon,
Up to the spirit-land.
List! to the startling bell,
And O! its lengthened peal;
Is this a funeral knell
Which on my ear doth steal?
Suggestive is the chime
To pilgrims here below,
How touching, how sublime
It speaks, we too must go.
And O! its lengthened peal;
Is this a funeral knell
Which on my ear doth steal?
Suggestive is the chime
To pilgrims here below,
How touching, how sublime
It speaks, we too must go.
Loving hands have robed
Thy fragile form with care;
Upon a gem so beautiful,
To gaze, I hardly dare.
Thy fragile form with care;
Upon a gem so beautiful,
To gaze, I hardly dare.
