In Memoriam. - Miss Laura Kingsbury,
Died at Hartford, July, 1861. Faithful and true in duty's sacred sphere, How like the summer-lightning hath she fled! One moment bending o'er the letter'd page,-- The next reposing with the silent dead. No more by shaded lamp, or garden fair;-- Yet hath she left a living transcript here, Yon helpless orphans will remember her,[1] And the young invalid she skilled to cheer; And he who trusted in her from his birth, As to a Mother's love,--and friends who saw Her goodness seeking no applause from earth, But ever steadfast to its heavenly law: For she, like her of old, with listening ear Sate at the Saviour's feet and won His plaudit dear.
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