University of Virginia Library

ON THE DEATH OF LADY GERTRUDE HOTHAM, APRIL 12TH, 1775.

Stranger to sin, and guilty fears,
An useful life of fourscore years
She lived on earth, like those above,
A life of humble praise and love:
And lo, the same from first to last,
When all her toils of love are pass'd,
With triumph calm her course she ends,
And in a flaming car ascends!