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Why mourn we for her, who in Spring's tender bloom,

And the sweet blush of womanhood, quitted life's sphere?

Why weep we for her? Thro' the gates of the tomb

She has pass'd to the regions undimm'd by a tear!

To the spirits' far land in the mansions above,

Unsullied, thus early her soul wing'd its flight;

While she bask'd in the beams of affection and love,

And knew not the clouds that oft shadow their light!

Fate's hand pluck'd the bud ere it blossom'd to fame,

No withering canker its leaflets had known;

The ministering angels her fellowship claim,

And rejoice o'er a spirit as pure as their own!

While she knew but life's purer and tenderer ties,

The guardian who watches life's path from our birth

Call'd home the bright being Heav'n form'd for the skies

Ere its bloom had been ting'd by the follies of earth!

Alas! while the light of her young spirit's flame

Shone a day-star of Hope to illumine us here,

The messenger-seraph too suddenly came,

And bore his bright charge to her own native sphere!

Yet mourn not for her, who, in Spring's tender bloom,

Has made life a desert to those left behind;

Like the rose-leaf, tho' wither'd, still yielding perfume,

In our hearts, ever fragrant, her memory is shrin'd!