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My thoughts are all in yonder town	A
Where wept by many tears	B
To day my mother's friend lays down	A
The burden of her years	C
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True as in life no poor disguise	D
Of death with her is seen	E
And on her simple casket lies	D
No wreath of bloom and green	E
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Oh not for her the florist's art	F
The mocking weeds of woe	G
Dear memories in each mourner's heart	F
Like heaven's white lilies blow	G
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And all about the softening air	H
Of new born sweetness tells	I
And the ungathered May flowers wear	H
The tints of ocean shells	I
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The old assuring miracle	J
Is fresh as heretofore	K
And earth takes up its parable	J
Of life from death once more	K
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Here organ swell and church bell toll	L
Methinks but discord were	M
The prayerful silence of the soul	L
Is best befitting her	M
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No sound should break the quietude	F
Alike of earth and sky	N
O wandering wind in Seabrook wood	F
Breathe but a half heard sigh	N
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Sing softly spring bird for her sake	O
And thou not distant sea	P
Lapse lightly as if Jesus spake	O
And thou wert Galilee	P
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For all her quiet life flowed on	Q
As meadow streamlets flow	G
Where fresher green reveals alone	R
The noiseless ways they go	G
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From her loved place of prayer I see	P
The plain robed mourners pass	S
With slow feet treading reverently	P
The graveyard's springing grass	S
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Make room O mourning ones for me	P
Where like the friends of Paul	T
That you no more her face shall see	P
You sorrow most of all	T
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Her path shall brighten more and more	K
Unto the perfect day	F
She cannot fail of peace who bore	K
Such peace with her away	F
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O sweet calm face that seemed to wear	H
The look of sins forgiven	U
O voice of prayer that seemed to bear	H
Our own needs up to heaven	U
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How reverent in our midst she stood	F
Or knelt in grateful praise	V
What grace of Christian womanhood	F
Was in her household ways	V
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For still her holy living meant	F
No duty left undone	U
The heavenly and the human blent	F
Their kindred loves in one	U
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And if her life small leisure found	F
For feasting ear and eye	N
And Pleasure on her daily round	F
She passed unpausing by	N
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Yet with her went a secret sense	W
Of all things sweet and fair	H
And Beauty's gracious providence	X
Refreshed her unaware	H
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She kept her line of rectitude	F
With love's unconscious ease	Y
Her kindly instincts understood	F
All gentle courtesies	Y
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An inborn charm of graciousness	Z
Made sweet her smile and tone	R
And glorified her farm wife dress	A2
With beauty not its own	R
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The dear Lord's best interpreters	B2
Are humble human souls	C2
The Gospel of a life like hers	B2
Is more than books or scrolls	C2
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From scheme and creed the light goes out	F
The saintly fact survives	D2
The blessed Master none can doubt	F
Revealed in holy lives	E2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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