"She was not gone but a little while
When they heard her playmates call--
Her friends hastened there to save the child,
But, alas, she was dead and gone.
"Those little girls will not forget
The day little Hattie died,
For she was with them when she fell in a fit,
While playing by their side."
Lois House, however, did not have to resort to any subterfuge. The
divine Providence spared her the trouble. She had just married an
exemplary young man, who "had courted her a long time in triumph and
glee," and
"They loved each other dearly and never deceived,
But God he did part them, one which he laid low,
The other He left with his heart full of woe."
The last verse almost has a touch of poetry in it:
"They placed her fair form in the coffin so cold,
And placed there Joy's picture as they had been told;
They bore her to her grave, all were in sad gloom,
And gently laid her down to rest in her tomb."
In "William House and Family" she disposes of them collectively:
"They once did live at Edgerton,
They once did live at Muskegon,
From there they went to Chicago,
Which proved their fatal overthrow.
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