The Wildfire Club - The Emma Hardinge Britten Archive

FAITH, OR MARY MACDONALD. 889
angelic messenger, whose first lessons of truth and wisdom
were lisped in her humble" Refuge;" in memory, ever!
. as long &s the essence of good deeds shall bloom on earth;
as long as the winter snows shall pierce the shivering
nerves of the houseless poor, who still linger around our
thresholds, like the dying musician of old, ready to carry
their tale of suffering or comfort to the homes of eternity;
and long, long after the slanting rays of the setting sun
shall cease to gild the humble tombstone, now overgrown
with moss and lichens, but still strewn by many a flower
which tiny hands instinctively gather to adorn the resting
place of her who so loved them in life, and which bears
this simple inscription, "In Memory of Mary Macdonald.
, Feed my sheep.' "