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 Thus passed away a most beautiful life in the morning of its usefulness, and in the quiet shades of evening the tortured, pain-racked body was laid to rest.

"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."

"Earth's sweetest flowers bloom but to decay."

The following lines which we subjoin are the last expressions of her pen, and in full harmony with her genial disposition as a mother.