[From Mona's Isle, 1844]

EPITAPH ON THE LATE MISS ANN WESTBROOK, OF WOOLW1CH,

One of the Author’s Subscribers.

YE humble followers of the Lamb,
With pious hearts draw near,
And o’er a sister’s ashes drop
A sympathetic tear,—
Not that ye should her fate bewail,
For God, in love divine,
Hath call’d th’ immortal spirit home
Before His throne to shine
In robes of spotless purity,
Wash’d in th’ atoning flood,
That issues from Emanuel’s side,
Of water and of blood:
But if a tear ye should bestow,
Let it in love be given,
And if a sigh, be it to join
Her ransom’d soul in heaven.