Susanna Wesley

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in London, and he speaks of her on March 14th and
18th as " very near the haven " ;
but when he called on
the 21st, her spirit
had just departed. On the 26th,
he " adds, I followed her to her quiet grave, and
wept with them that weep." She was fifty-three years
of age.
Mr. Wright was inconsolable, and begged Charles
Wesley not to forsake him, though
dead. He survived her several years, married again,
and did not always live peaceably with his second wife.
For some years he saw nothing of the Wesleys, but,
when struck down by palsy, sent for Charles, and was
much rejoiced to see him. That sanguine evangelist
saw reason for hope in his end, and perhaps, after all,
his faults were rather those of the head than of the
heart.
his sister was
Dr. Adam Clarke collected and published ten of
Mrs. Wright's poems
;
they were in accordance with
the ideas of the people among whom she moved, and
tinged with the melancholy that saddened her existence;
but unbounded weariness of this world, and
ecstatic longing for the unknown and unknowable
future is
always morbid and unhealthy. The only
verse worth quoting here is from a little
poem
addressed to a mother on the death of her children :
" Though sorer sorrows than their birth
Your children's death has given ;
Mourn not that others bear for earth,
While you have peopled Heaven/'
We have no further glimpse of Anne Wesley, Mrs.
Lambert, and her husband, after their presence at the
mother's funeral in Bunhill Fields, nor is
anything
known of their son's career.