in the sight of God, is to cruel the poor
harmless dumb creatures,
They cannot speak nor help themselves.

The next sin is to cruel sick human,
The next sin is to cruel any who cannot help themselves,
And especially the cruel to the poor, harmless dumb creatures.

The Lord will cut asunder the cords of such sinners.
This world a place of misery,
I pray for thy kingdom to come, to destroy all sin,
O Lord, land me in heaven, that holy, happy place,
When I bid adieu to this vain world,
My good God in heaven, my only true friend,
Has held me up with His arm, and all I have to lean upon.
Christ, a man of grief, he wept so much himself,
On him I lean, who not in vain,
He counts and treasures up my tears.

NANCY LUCE.
WEST TISBURY, DUKES COUNTY, MASS., 1871.

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This reading below is on my gravestones:

Poor little heart, ADA QUEETIE,
O my heart is consumed
In the coffin under ground,
O how I feel for her,
She and I could never part,
She was my own heart within me,
She had more than common love,
And more than common wit.

Poor little heart, BEAUTY LINNA,
She has consumed,
In the coffin under ground,
O how I feel for her,
She was a cunning little heart.

Poor TWEEDLE, TEDEL, BEEBE, PINKY,
Poor dear little heart,
Sore broke in her,
I am left broken-hearted,
She was my own heart within me,
She had more than common wit,
She is taken from the evil to come.

Them that knew me once, know--me--no--more,
Till all things have their end,
And they, and I, do meet in heaven.

PRAYERS.

O I pray for my Lord Jesus Christ,
To destroy all sin, and all misery, for the afflicted,
For the poor harmless dumb creatures,
And for all the troubled,
In the wide world around,
For all that breathes the breath of life,
Dumb creatures, and human too.
O that I may leave this world of misery,
O that I may see my Lord Jesus Christ,
And live with him in heaven.
O that I may meet my deceased friends in heaven;
O that I may rise above those earthly afflictions, sickness, trials,
and trouble. Amen.

O Lord, my God of Heaven, Grant me, I beseech Thee, O Lord, I pray for
Thy Kingdom to come, to destroy all sin, be done on earth as it is done
in heaven, for the poor harmless dum