Poems on Several Occasions :: :: University of Virginia Library

Here rests a Pattern of the Female Life,
The Woman, Friend, the Mother, and the Wife.
A Woman form'd by Nature, more than Art,
With smiling Ease to gain upon the Heart.
A Friend as true as Guardian-Angels are,
Kindness her Law, Humanity her Care.
A Mother sweetly tender, justly dear,
Oh! never to be nam'd without a Tear.
A Wife of every social Charm possest,
Blessing her Husbands—In her Husbands blest.
Love in her Heart, Compassion in her Eyes,
Her Thoughts as humble, as her Virtues high.

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Her Knowledge useful, nor too high, nor low,
To serve her Maker, and Her-self to know.
Born to relieve the Poor, the Rich to please,
To live with Honour, and to die in Peace.
So full her Hope, her Wishes so resign'd,
Her Life so blameless, so unstain'd her Mind,
Heav'n smil'd to see, and gave the gracious Nod,
Nor longer wou'd detain her from her God.

She departed this Life October 25. 1737. Aged 65.

Her former Husband was Jos. Fisher M. A. Fellow of Queen's Coll. Oxford, Vicar of Brough and Arch-Deacon of Carlisle; by whom She had no Children.