heart,
Remembered four years,
Ever since she was a little chicken,
I know it by many things.

Her dear friend is left in trouble, and undergo sickness too.
Them that knew me once, know--me--no--more,
Her death renewed me to seek for God,
To land in heaven hereafter.

NANCY LUCE
West Tisbury, Dukes County, Mass., 1872.

PRAYER.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, my God of heaven,
Grant me I beseech Thee, O Lord,
Send Thy holy spirit into all the needy hearts,
In the whole wide world around,
Convince them of sin, give them the holy spirit,
O that they may be kind and tender
To the poor harmless dumb creatures,
They cannot speak, nor help themselves,
O Lord, prepare the inhabitants of the earth
To live in this world and in the world to come.
O Lord, I beseech Thee, protect me from committing sin,
O Lord, help me to watch and pray,
O Lord, I give Thee thanks for what blessings I have,
O Lord, can thou deliver me from sickness, trouble and trials?
O Lord, stand my friend in this world and in the world to come.
O Lord, that the professing inhabitants may not fall back
And go to sinning again. O that they may be true Christians,
The holy spirit, love and tender kindness for dumb creatures
And human too, love God and land in heaven,
O Lord, enable me to have the holy spirit all the days of my life,
O Lord, grant me I beseech Thee,
I pray for Thy kingdom to come, to destroy all sin,
For the poor harmless dumb creatures,
And for sick human too.
And for all the troubled in the wide world round,
Human and dumb creatures too,
For thine is the kingdom and the glory forever. Amen.

SICKNESS.

Sickness distressing, by trouble and trials,
Walk, stir, or do a little in the house,
It hurts me very bad,
And I cannot ride to have comfort.

My head a misery place all of my time,
And part of my time in great misery,
And noise sets my head
In a dreadful condition.

Most nothing hurts me,
And most nothing beats me out,
I am dreadful worn down with long sickness,
And trials, and sometimes trouble too.

Sick I do feel all my whole time,
And misery feelings from head to feet.
A number of years,
I have undergone great sickness.

Some of my diseases are cured a few years ago,
And some of them helped some,