The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-12-28 00:00:00

PRI NCESS ALICE.

DECEMBER 14nt, 1878.
Gone in the golden prime of womanhood,
From lovelit hearth, and peaceful princely sway,
Gone from thine husband, vanished from the ey, s
Of loving children, saved from death by thee.
Gone from the sacred circle of toy kin,
First jewel lost to the fraternal band
Of sons and daughters born to our Great Queen.
Gone from thy widowed Mother's lonely life,
That Mother whose best comforter thou wert,
When death divided, seventeen years ago
Her close heart-bond with Albert, called the Gool
Gone from the people of this loyal land,
Who loved thee from the cradle to the grave,
Gone from the kindly Vearts that welcomed thee
When thou didst take the sacred m-.me of wife,
And called thy husband's Fatherland thiue own,
Gone from all these things to the silent laud!

The nation looked for tidings day by day,
And prayer went up from anxious, loving hearts
Tnat God would spare to 11l and Fatherland,
Ttie chertshed life of England's sweetest flower.
But whib the prayer was yet upon onr lips,
Woile hope still warred with fear in faithful breasts,
Dread tidings travelled over land and sea,
Death claimed the forfeit of that goodly life,
And Engla ad's PRINCESS ALICE was with Clod.

She lived full nobly—worthy of her race,
She died full nobly--laying down her life
The precious cost of mother's duty done! •
She lived full purely by her husbaud's side,
She died full purely, as a ripe saint dies.
She lived for others' comfort and content,
She died for love, ha.oic, selfless, grand.
In lieu of earthly crown God giveth her
The start y circlet of love's martyred ones ;
For human sceptre fallen from her grasp,
That grows in Heaven for such as o ercurne :
And while we mark and mourn her empty place,
Who knoweth of her rapture, standing high
Among the blessed, where her noble Sire,
With her sweet children,meet her, robed &crowned ?

We know not these things,—tears and dole are ours,
And England's heart is heavy for its Queen,
Again bereaved on that December day
Which robbed her of her husband years ago.
Weep, Royal One, thy people weeps with thee,
Thy children are the children of thy land,
And in the nation's heart, where fondly lay
The image of thine ALICE, gapes a wound
Which aches for the, and for itself, because
This world hath lost her. But for her no tears,
She has but gone full early to her rest,
Earth is not worthy of such noble souls,
Their life is hid with God beyond the stars! II S
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