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Show SISTER MARY ALICE. N (.Died Dee. ;il. Aged 21 years.) The following beautiful and touching tribute from a Canadian is pnhl to the late Sister Alice, who was born at Conception Bay, Newfoundland : Ah. gone forever is the voice and the spirit broken, ton. And she the beautiful and the young, the lovely and the true. Is swept away, and a cloudy day now darkens o'er the home Where a mournful dirge, like the sail sea's surge, is wailed for her alone. Now mourn her loss let the gift of prayer go solemnly sol-emnly up to God Ami weep for her the fair young one who'll lie beneath be-neath the sud. For our hearth delight is coffined tonight and mure the silvery tongue: Then a dirge for the child so young and wild who died and died so young. Come hither and place the rosary iu the hands of the debonair. : And twine the rose and the lily in the folds of h"r golden hair: Fit emblems they on this mournful day to tell of the life she led. And silently speak for the young and meek now lying before us dead. Oh. stay not now the unbidden tear which falls for her so fair. For her whose quick, untimely death has left in in despair; For a spotless soul is gone to its goal and closed th eyes once bright. And our hopes and fears, our sighs and tears, be . there on her bier tonight. We'll bury in the silent earth, win re the winds h--r requiem sing. - And make her a grave in the tield of the dead whoiv the trees their shadows fling; At the foot of the cross we'll mourn our loss and wee) for her early doom ; Then a dirge for the child stj fair and mild who died and died so soon. ( I Xii.bc. |