LILYBELL.

Little Lily she was fair--

O how fair no tongue can tell!

Life was bright beyond compare

Filled with love and Lilybell.

Little Lily came the day

Both our hearts were lorn and lone.

Oh! what bliss it was to say

"Lilybell is all our own!"

Little Lily stay'd and smiled

On us for a year or so,

Then they came and took the child

Upward where the angels go.

Little Lily left a mark--

Mark of light where e'r she trod:

Left her footprints in the dark,

Just to guide us up to God.

Upward, then, we look alway:

Pray and shed the silent tear;

Hoping soon will come the day

We shall join our darling there.