DROWNED

[Footnote: In the Grand River, at Brantford, July 30th, 1875, Miss
Jessie Hamilton, adopted daughter of C.H. Waterous, Esq., Brantford,
aged 14 years and 3 months, and Miss Ella E. Murton, only daughter of
John W. Murton, Esq., Hamilton, aged 14 years.]


The morning dawned without a cloud,
But evening came with pall and shroud,--
With muffled step, and bated breath,
And mournful whisperings of--_death!_

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Young lips, that in the morning sung
The summer's opening flowers among,
Were hushed and cold;--young, laughing eyes,
That met the dawn with sweet surprise,
Were darkly sealed;--young feet, that pressed
The dewy turf with glad unrest,
Were cold and stirless, never more
To tread the paths they trod before;--
And they, who in the morning strayed
In fawn-like freedom down the glade,
In solemn, dreamless slumber lay,