She was such a treasure to us
She was our joy and pride
We loved her, ah! Perhaps too much
For soon she slept and died
All is dark within our dwelling
Lonely are our hearts today
For the one we loved so dearly
Has forever passed away.
She has passed from our midst
in her springtime, she flew
to that land where the wings
of the soul are unfurled
and now, like a star, beyond
evening's cold dew
looks radiantly down on the
tears of the world.
Death is a debt to nature due
which i have paid and so must you
beneath this simple little stone
that marks his resting place
our precious darling sleeps alone
in death's long cold embrace.
a precious one from us is gone
a voice we love is stilled
a place is vacant in our hearts
which can never be filled
sleep on, sweet babe,
and take thy rest
god called thee home
he thought it best
shed not for her the bitter tear
nor give the heart to vain regret
'tis but the casket that lies here
the gem that filled it sparkles yet.
the wife, the friend, the mother dear
in dreamless sleep repossess here
may those whose love to her was given
all meet and live with her in heaven
to live is a gift, to die, a debt
life is only a prelude to eternity.
As hand in hand, their lives they played
So side by side in death they are laid
Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
1811
Welcome sweet hour of full discharge
That sets our longing souls at large
Unbends our chains, breaks up our cell
And gives us with our God to dwell.
1820
Torn from a widowed mother's fond embrace
In life's prime and of age,the bloom
Her chief surviving hope, her slay, alas
here sleeps untimely in the tomb.
1830
All of you, advanced in years
Tho' healthy and robust
you'r tott'ring round the grave
And soon must turn to dust.
1834 (i LOVE that one)
Love well, my wife, and children dear
Devote your lives unto God's fear
That you with Him may always live,
This is the last advice I give.
1828
My children near, this place draw near
A father's grave you see
Not long ago, I was with you
And soon you'll be with me.
1812
Vain man, thy fond pursuit forbear
Repent! The end is nigh
Death at the farthest can't be far
Oh, think before you die.
1824
Too dear, too fair for mortals here
Her savior's called her home
Here we are left to shed a tear
And mourn her early doom.
1812
When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies
E'en then shall this be all my plea
Jesus hath lived and died for me.
1823
Friend nor physician could not save
This mortal body from the grave.
1810
The tender parent wants no more her loss
Nor labors more beneath life's heavy load
The anxious soul released from fears
has found her Heaven and her God.
1828
In silent mansions of the dead
The saint returned lies safely bid
No din or war, nor raging lust
Disturbs the peace of sleeping dust.
1807
Look up ye heirs of endless joy
nor let your fears prevail
Eternal life is your reward
When life on Erth shall fail.
1808
Farewell, vain worls
From hence I am hurled
Your vanities are fled
I quit them all
with this mean ball
Tor regions of the dead.
1800
Lord, I commit my soul to thee
Accept the sacred trust
Recieve well this nobler part of me
And watch o'er my sleeping dust.
1835
Reader! Eternity's at hand
O, why then waste thy little sand
Or careless view departing day
And throw life's inch of time away.
1837
Father, in that solemn trust,
we commend thee, dust to dust
In that faith, we wait til risen
Thou shall meet us all in Heaven.
1875
Suffer, little children
to come unto me
and forbid them not
for such is the kingdom of God
1834, a 10 month old infant
She's gone and left us here below
To mourn her loss with grief and woe
But God id just, may we be still
Since is our Heavenly father's wil.
1855
Death with his dart hath pierced my heart
Tho' I was in my prime
My living friends, don't mourn for me
It was God's appointed time
1822 (16 year old boy)
