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My pen cannot describe or tears convey, / The pangs I felt when late I bad farewell; / I view'd in death's embrace a parent lay, / And heard the passing of the mournful bell.
Nine month's disease its ravages had made, / E'er death reliev'd her from all sufferings here; / I saw the Sexton with his Iron spade, / Mark out the spot, and place the gloomy bier.