| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXIX. The Happy Dead
Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke | | By Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
| | | LO! where the silent marble weeps, | |
| A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps: | |
| A heart within whose sacred cell | |
| The peaceful virtues loved to dwell. | |
| Affection warm, and faith sincere, | 5 |
| And soft humanity were there. | |
| In agony, in death resign’d, | |
| She felt the wound she left behind. | |
| Her infant image here below | |
| Sits smiling on a father’s woe: | 10 |
| Whom what awaits, while yet he strays | |
| Along the lonely vale of days? | |
| A pang, to secret sorrow dear; | |
| A sigh; an unavailing tear; | |
| Till time shall every grief remove, | 15 |
| With life, with memory, and with love. | | | | |
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