To Mrs. Sophia T. Janes
Old friend, of long and long ago,
Brave witness of the stormy time
That saw the slave-mart’s overthrow,
And the new Freedom’s birth sublime,
Through all its toils, and hopes and fears,
While many a friend has passed away,
On the gray steep of eighty years
We hail thee reverently to-day!
The souls of loved ones gone before
Look down, with blessings on thy brow,
And join our greetings as we pour
Thanks for the life sustained till now.
Long may the Pallid Angel wait
To summon thee, and when at last
He leads thee to the Golden Gate,
Be there the loves of all thy past!
- Title
- To Mrs. Sophia T. Janes
- Alternative Title
- Old friend, on long and long ago
- Bibliographic Citation
- George S. Burleigh Papers, 1825-1902. John Hay Library, Brown University. Large Scrapbook 236
- Poems by George and Ruth Burleigh, edited by Mary Louise Brown, 1941, held by Little Compton Historical Society, Box A47.24
- Date
- 1896
- Subject
- Occasional Poems
- Friends
- Anti-slavery
- note
- Sophia Taft Janes (March 12, 1816 to May 9, 1901) was born in Connecticut, and later became the wife of Alphonso Janes, an officer in the Rhode-Island Anti-Slavery Society and in the American Anti-Slavery Society.
- Find-a-Grave for Sophia T. Janes
- Signed "Geo. S. Burleigh, Providence, R. I., March 12th, 1896."
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