Inscription
Inscription as recorded in John Warner Barber's volume Connecticut Historical Collections (New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber, 1838), p. 184:
IN MEMORY OF
LUCRETIA PICKERING,
WIFE OF
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE,
WHO DIED FEB. 7TH, A.D. 1825,
AGED 25 YEARS.
SHE COMBINED IN HER CHARACTER AND PERSON A RARE ASSEMBLAGE OF EXCELLENCE. BEAUTIFUL IN FORM, FEATURES, AND EXPRESSION, PECULIARLY BLAND IN HER MANNERS, HIGHLY CULTIVATED IN HER MIND, SHE IRRESISTIBLY DREW ATTENTION, LOVE, AND RESPECT.
DIGNIFIED WITHOUT HAUGHTINESS, AMIABLE WITHOUT TAMENESS, FIRM WITHOUT SEVERITY, AND CHEERFUL WITHOUT LEVITY, HER UNIFORM SWEETNESS OF TEMPER SPREAD A PERPETUAL SUNSHINE AROUND EVERY CIRCLE IN WHICH SHE MOVED.
"WHEN THE EAR HEARD HER IT BLESSED HER; WHEN THE EYE SAW HER IT GAVE WITNESS TO HER."
IN SUFFERINGS THE MOST KEEN, HER SERENITY OF MIND NEVER FAILED HER; DEATH TO HER HAD NO TERROR, THE GRAVE NO GLOOM.
THOUGH SUDDENLY CALLED FROM EARTH, ETERNITY WAS NO STRANGER TO HER THOUGHTS, BUT A WELCOME THEME OF CONTEMPLATION.
RELIGION WAS THE SUN THAT ILLUMINED EVERY VARIED VIRTUE, AND UNITED ALL IN ONE BOW OF BEAUTY.
HER'S WAS THE RELIGION OF THE GOSPEL, JESUS CHRIST HER FOUNDATION, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF HER FAITH.
IN HIM SHE RESTS IN SURE EXPECTATION OF A GLORIOUS RESURRECTION.
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