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St. Joachin's had never seen a day Of such profuse and general grief before, As when with tapers, dirge, and long array The Maiden's body to the grave they bore. All eyes, all hearts, her early death deplore; Yet wondering at the fortune they lament, They the wise ways of Providence adore, By whom the Pastor surely had been sent When to the Mondai woods upon his quest he went.

This was, indeed, a chosen family. For Heaven's especial favor mark'd, they said; Shut out from all mankind they seem'd to be, Yet mercifully there were visited, That so within the fold they might be led, Then call'd away to bliss. Already two In their baptismal innocence were dead; The third was on the bed of death they knew, And in the appointed course must presently ensue.