The photo of the gravestone shows that more lines are obscured by the grass and the ground, but likely continues from the poem "A True Incident" by Nathaniel Parker Willis:
"to thy questioning heart, lo and answer from heaven
"Is it well with the child?" "It is well!"
(Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis: With a Memoir of the Author
By Nathaniel Parker Willis, London: George Rutledge & Sons, 1891) on Google Books, p 83
Contributor: Mary (47481567)
The photo of the gravestone shows that more lines are obscured by the grass and the ground, but likely continues from the poem "A True Incident" by Nathaniel Parker Willis:
"to thy questioning heart, lo and answer from heaven
"Is it well with the child?" "It is well!"
(Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis: With a Memoir of the Author
By Nathaniel Parker Willis, London: George Rutledge & Sons, 1891) on Google Books, p 83
Contributor: Mary (47481567)
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