Obituary for Clara Bres, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Source: The Register
Submitted by Lora Peppers
8/6/00


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The Register
Thursday Morning, March 8, 1860
Page 2, Column 7
DIED,

On the 26th ult., CLARA, aged five years, eight months and twenty days, daughter of Mr. C. 
and C.A. BRES, Caldwell Parish, La.

"The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord." 
Let the parents of little Clara find consolation in the above words of Holy Writ; though 
she was loved by you as parents only can love ‹
though you had watched over her until she had attained an interesting age ‹
still ‹ Weep not for her whom the veil of the tomb,

In life's happy morning, hath hid from your eyes.
Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom, Or earth had profaned what was born 
for the skies.

Death chill'd the fair fountain ere sorrow had stain'd it,

ŒTwas frozen in all the pure light of its course,

And but sleeps till the sunshine of heaven has unchain'd it,

To water that Eden where first was its source!

Weep not for her whom the veil of the tomb,

In life's happy morning, hath hid from your eyes.

Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom,

Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies.