Death & Dying
On the Death of Lady Gertrude
From Epitaphs · Osborn ed., vol. 8 (1870)
Death & Dying
Hotham, April i2TH, 1775.
Stranger to sin, and guilty fears.
An useful life of fourscore years
She lived on earth, like those above,
A life of humble praise and love:
And lo, the same from first to last,
When all her toils of love are pass'd,
With triumph calm her course she ends,
And in a flaming car ascends!
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