Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-15
OBITUARY.

Died. in the city of New Orleans on the morning
of June IS 1866, CLOTILDE, wife of Geo. II. Penn
and only daughter of Rufus Dolbear.
Such is the cruel formula that registers human
grief before the world How sadly suggestive of
broken ties of withered hopes, and blasted joys
One short last gasp, and all that we have loved is
gone The kind friend the dutifal daughter the
gentle sister; the devoted wife the fond mother
passes away, and desolation reigns throughout the
circle of these sweet relations.
Husband father, brother, each withdraws into the
sanctuary of his SOUL and sits in silence under
the shadow of his grief; while prattling child
hood prattes in touching Inconsistencies of its
deep loss.
The subject of this brief sketch was horn in New
Orleans Sept "a, 1888, and had not, therefore,
pleted the 2sth year of her age Thus early she
fell beneath the scythe of the Great Mower but not
unripe Gifted with high natural endowments, she
was capable of the rich culture bestowed upon her.
Having been taught to read and write before most
children have well learned to talk her education
was vigorously pressed to the period of wOmanhood
Inquistive and speculative in her mental cast she
improved these advantages to the last degree, and
entered upon life. not only stored with useful
knowledge but embellished with all that refinement
and taste, which literature and the arts could in
spire A character thus fitted toadorn society was
moreover early sanctifed by religion and the grace
of true piety added iYsuperor charm to the beauty
and lovliness of true wOmanhood While young she
united with the Presbyterian Church, in whose
communion she died, giving increasing evidence,
especially through her long and painful illness, of
entire preparation for Heaven. Her Bible marked
upon the margin of almost every page, indicates
the truths upon which her faith and hopes delighted
to feed. She fell gently asleep upon the Saviour's
breast without sigh of reluctance for the joys left
r-sIa-
ago raingle their with those CT father and
abrother while yet in their bitter grief they wish
her 10y in her grand ascension to be with the I'm
mortals.
The following lines, penned upon bed of suffer
ing, parting farewell to her beloved husband,
we attach to this obituary, not only for their
beauty, but as a memorial of her taste and cult
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Call me no more thine Own-the summer hours,
So loved by me, shall never come again;
Scarce shall see the springs pale flowers
Here in this life Of weary ache and pain,
shall be thine no more.
The spring shall wake fresh verdure drought the vale
From gray winter freed, blue shall glow the sky;
But ere the sweet breathed violets grow pale,
This fading form low in the dust shall lie,
Then shall not be tine own.
The shadow of parting hour is nigh
1t falls, dear one, upon my heart and thine;
Alas ! to leave thee; when LIES morning hour
Is goldened DER by love almost divine
Nay, call me not now thine own.
shall leave thee soon and thou beloved will feel
A gloomy shadow DER thy pathway thrown
And all too soon this truth viii Ger thee ste&,
That in this weary world thou art alone,
And from thee feed, thine own,
And thou wilt miss yet without grief
And illumed by loves far-reaching eye
know that thou thy purest joy shall find
In dreams of early love that buried lie
Love when was all thine own
| No longer thinei To wake for thee, at eve,
| The chords of music sweetest to thine
To love thee, and. through grief or joy.
To be thy trlest friend-Of all most dear
To be thine own
On those not distant hills where beauty never fades
| My lingering feet shall rest. Obi do not wsep;
With me thoult dwell where sadness ne'er invades
With Him who giveth his beloved sleep
| "a Forever there thin own
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