The Clergyman's Wife

Anna Cora Mowatt (1819–1870)

——"Gladsome spirits and benignant looks,That for a face not beautiful did moreThan beauty for the fairest face could do."

"A child is given to sanctifyA woman; set her in the sight of allThe clear-eyed heavens, a chosen ministerTo do their business and lead spirits upThe difficult, blue heights."

"The darts of anguish fix not where the seaOf suffering has been thoroughly fortifiedBy acquiescence in the will supreme,For time and for eternity!"