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nourishment, she said:
"I've no mind for eating or for drinking,
Food, which might corrupt again;
If God's bread that's heavenly I am thinking
Jesus' flesh I would obtain,
Who was made man of the Lord of David,
And his blood is drink, O how I crave it
From earth's life to be set free
In loves' immortality."
She added, "That is what I want." At 8
in the evening she found breathing very diffi-
cult. Her son looking at her with earnest con-
cern, she turned her eyes to him, as it were, to
comfort him and said:
"Tho' waves and storming o'er my head,
Tho health a strength a friend, be gone,
Shortness of breath preventing her from fini-
shing this her favourite verse, she said to hersin, Go on; which he did as follows:
"Tho' joys be withered ill and fled,
Tho' every comfort be with withdrawn;
Stedfast on this my soul relies,
Jesus, thy mercy never dies."
She joined in the last lines, and then said,
that is it. For sometimes after this she
continued labouring under great difficulty
of breathing, and at length was very desi-
rous to have her bed made. Being placed on