Storace, Ann Selina

To the memory of Ann Selina Storace who died the 24th day of August 1817, aged 51 her affectionate Mother, Elizabeth Storace, has erected this Tablet. Ah! what avails the once resistless pow'r/ To gladden with thy mirth the public hour?/ Ah! what avails that musick tun'd thy throat,/ And crowds enraptured hung on ev'ry note ? The boast how vain —while o'er this votive stone/ Droops a lorn mother—childless and alone!/ Yet mem'ry to thy talents not confined,/ Dwells on the gen'rous virtues of the mind;/ On CHARITY, on FILIAL DUTY dwells,/ And the sunk heart with nobler sorrow swells. Lord! before Thee a burthen'd spirit bends;/ But HOPE aspires, and FAITH to Heaven ascends.