Lady Jane Grey’s Last Poem

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 30.

Lady Jane Grey’s Last Poem

The night before Lady Jane Grey's execution she wrote with a pin on the wall of her cell these lines:—

"Think not, O mortal, vainly gay, That thou from human woes art free; The bitter cup I drained to-day To-morrow may be drained by thee. Harmless all malice, if our God be nigh; Bootless all joy, if he his help deny. Patient I pass these gloomy hours away, And wait the morning of eternal day."