Lines written on hearing of the death

of, of the U. S. Army

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C. F. Wells

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Extracts of Letters to a Lady on the

death of her Husband

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A Lament

Mrs. Opie

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Extract of a Letter to Miss H. More Rev. J. Newton 182

PART I.

CONTEMPLATIONS

OF

DEATH, SEPARATION, &C.

STANZAS TO ONE BEREFT.

BY GRENVILLE MELLEN.

THE heart that has not known the hour
When Grief could bid it bow,

Or seen that looks and words have power
To wring the brightest brow,
"Twere vain to torture with a song
So sorrowful as mine;

Leave such to pant amid the throng
That crowd its gilded shrine.

But ye who suffer-who have felt

The destiny of earth,

That Death with shadowy hand hath dealt

Rebuke amid your mirth;

To you this tribute of a word,

When other sounds have fled,

Will come like loved tones faintly heard :The Memory of the Dead.