We saw her later life, serene with age,
When calmer joys are suited to engage
Our wiser, more experienced desires.
And well she knew what happy life requires.
She slowly aged, whose mother, faster aging,
Filial duty then first her steps engaging,
Found her faithful to take the daily airing
To learn just how the elder born was faring.
Then hostess next at home, when parson came;
She his taste must study and learn his name.
When pensive o'er the task, the master spared
No openeing chance for pleasantry: so fared
The parson strange: when others came to greet
And storied wit with laughter was the treat,
All would as lief forget the sermon time:
Just then the bells must loud begin to chime.
She, tall and stately, without meaning pride
And speaking few words, those might none deride,
Now bending forward and inclined the head,
Into such form as thoughtful life is led:
Discreet and wise and calm to order right
The virtues, treasured in her gentle might;
So warned and wary of fair Fortune's crosses
And loth to see things sacred suffer losses,
Now sits down and the deacon counsel gives;
Till so restored, Nathaniel's daughter lives.
Parsons to please and deacons to make wise,
We show her still in not infrequent guise.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Pynchon Robinson, 1907
When calmer joys are suited to engage
Our wiser, more experienced desires.
And well she knew what happy life requires.
She slowly aged, whose mother, faster aging,
Filial duty then first her steps engaging,
Found her faithful to take the daily airing
To learn just how the elder born was faring.
Then hostess next at home, when parson came;
She his taste must study and learn his name.
When pensive o'er the task, the master spared
No openeing chance for pleasantry: so fared
The parson strange: when others came to greet
And storied wit with laughter was the treat,
All would as lief forget the sermon time:
Just then the bells must loud begin to chime.
She, tall and stately, without meaning pride
And speaking few words, those might none deride,
Now bending forward and inclined the head,
Into such form as thoughtful life is led:
Discreet and wise and calm to order right
The virtues, treasured in her gentle might;
So warned and wary of fair Fortune's crosses
And loth to see things sacred suffer losses,
Now sits down and the deacon counsel gives;
Till so restored, Nathaniel's daughter lives.
Parsons to please and deacons to make wise,
We show her still in not infrequent guise.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Pynchon Robinson, 1907
We saw her later life, serene with age,
When calmer joys are suited to engage
Our wiser, more experienced desires.
And well she knew what happy life requires.
She slowly aged, whose mother, faster aging,
Filial duty then first her steps engaging,
Found her faithful to take the daily airing
To learn just how the elder born was faring.
Then hostess next at home, when parson came;
She his taste must study and learn his name.
When pensive o'er the task, the master spared
No openeing chance for pleasantry: so fared
The parson strange: when others came to greet
And storied wit with laughter was the treat,
All would as lief forget the sermon time:
Just then the bells must loud begin to chime.
She, tall and stately, without meaning pride
And speaking few words, those might none deride,
Now bending forward and inclined the head,
Into such form as thoughtful life is led:
Discreet and wise and calm to order right
The virtues, treasured in her gentle might;
So warned and wary of fair Fortune's crosses
And loth to see things sacred suffer losses,
Now sits down and the deacon counsel gives;
Till so restored, Nathaniel's daughter lives.
Parsons to please and deacons to make wise,
We show her still in not infrequent guise.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Pynchon Robinson, 1907
When calmer joys are suited to engage
Our wiser, more experienced desires.
And well she knew what happy life requires.
She slowly aged, whose mother, faster aging,
Filial duty then first her steps engaging,
Found her faithful to take the daily airing
To learn just how the elder born was faring.
Then hostess next at home, when parson came;
She his taste must study and learn his name.
When pensive o'er the task, the master spared
No openeing chance for pleasantry: so fared
The parson strange: when others came to greet
And storied wit with laughter was the treat,
All would as lief forget the sermon time:
Just then the bells must loud begin to chime.
She, tall and stately, without meaning pride
And speaking few words, those might none deride,
Now bending forward and inclined the head,
Into such form as thoughtful life is led:
Discreet and wise and calm to order right
The virtues, treasured in her gentle might;
So warned and wary of fair Fortune's crosses
And loth to see things sacred suffer losses,
Now sits down and the deacon counsel gives;
Till so restored, Nathaniel's daughter lives.
Parsons to please and deacons to make wise,
We show her still in not infrequent guise.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Pynchon Robinson, 1907
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