by Ann Plato<\/p>\n
Deep in this grave her bones remain,
\nShe’s sleeping on, bereft of pain,
\nHer tongue in silence now does sleep,
\nAnd she no more time’s call can greet.<\/p>\n
She liv’d as all God’s saints should do,
\nResign’d to death and suffering too;
\nShe feels not pain or sin oppress,
\nNor does of worldly cares possess.<\/p>\n
White were the locks that thinly shed
\nTheir snows around her honor’d head,
\nAnd furrows not to be effac’d
\nHad age amid her features trac’d.<\/p>\n
I said, my sister, DO tread light,
\nFaint as the stars that gleam at night,
\nNor pluck the tender leaves that wave
\nIn sweetness over this sainted grave.<\/p>\n
Public Domain \r\n\r\nSource: Ann Plato, Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry. Hartford: 1841. (Printed for the Author)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflections, Written on Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato Deep in this grave her bones remain, She’s sleeping on, bereft of pain, Her tongue in silence now does sleep, And she no more time’s call can greet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[32,31,48,30],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-plato","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-religious-belief","tag-womens-lives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}