[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — Your readers may like
to be reminded of another beauti-
ful epitaph by the late Archbishop Alexander in memory of Agnes Jones, one of the pioneers of hospital reform. She died in February, 1863, in the infirmary of Liverpool Work- house, and was buried in the little country churchyard of Fahan, near Lough Swilly, where a monument was erected to her memory :—
" Alone with Christ in this sequester'd pines Thy sweet soul learn'd its quietude of grace; On sufferers waiting in this vale of ours Thy gifted touch was trained to finer powers.
Therefore when Death, 0 Agnes ! came to thee Not in the cool breath of our silver sea, But in the city hospital's hot ward,
A gentle worker for the gentle Lord—
Proudly, as men heroic ashes claim, We ask'd to have thy fever-stricken frame, And lay it in our grass, beside our foam, Till Christ the Healer call His healers home!"
—I am, Sir, &c.,
L.
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