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In Memoriam. - Mrs. Elizabeth Harris,

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Died at Hartford, Sunday evening, September 9th, 1860, aged 80.     Oh sorrowing Daughter, left alone         In home's deserted sphere,     Where every object group'd around,     In pleasant room, or garden's bound     Is twined by links of sight or sound         With the lost Mother dear;     Yet take sweet thoughts thy grief to soothe         Of what she was below,     Her years to faithful duty given,     Her comfort in the Book of Heaven,     Her ready trust when life was riven,         To Christ, her Lord, to go.     And take sweet memories of the care         That smoothed her couch of pain,     The grateful love that o'er her way     Kept tender vigil, night and day,     And let its pure, reflected ray         Thy drooping heart sustain.     So shall thy faith the pang assuage         That heaves thy mourning breast;     For nearer brings each setting sun     Their blessed meeting who have won     The plaudit of the Judge, "Well done,         Come, enter to my rest."

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