IN MEMORIAM.
[Died, at Cold Springs plantation, Clairborne County, Mississippi, on Saturday, March 27, 1880, at 1 o'clock P.M., Laura M. McCaleb, wife of Henry Guillotte, and only sister of E. Howard McCaleb, of this city. Aged thirty-six years.—New Orleans Times.]
The broken threads of a woman's life Have quivered and sadly dropped apart;The waxen hands in a listless clasp Are folded over the silent heart;The lustre of the beautiful eye Is shrouded under the snowy lid;The shimmering gold of the curling lash Has caught a gleam of the soul it hid,
As if the spirit had turned again, And lingered just for an instant there,To leave a ray of its perfect light On the quiet lash and curling hair.Beautiful in the sleep of death, As some just broken lily flower,
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