Mehetabel Wright - An Epitaph on Herself

Destined while living to sustain
An equal share of grief and pain,
All various ills of human race
Within this breast once had a place.
Without complaint she learned to bear
A living death, a long despair,
Till hard oppressed by adverse fate,
O'ercharged, she sunk beneath its weight;
And to this peaceful tomb retired,
So much esteemed, so long desired.
The painful mortal conflict o'er:
A broken heart can bleed no more!