Alice Cary

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was a poet born near Cincinnati, Ohio.

Quotes

• My soul is full of whispered song,—
  My blindness is my sight;
  The shadows that I feared so long
  Are full of life and light.
  • "Dying Hymn", in Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns (1866) p. 326

• Yea, when mortality dissolves,
   Shall I not meet thine hour unawed?
  My house eternal in the heavens
   Is lighted by the smile of God!
  • "Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182

• We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 129

Quotes about Cary

• Her religious sentiments were deep and strong, her faith in the Eternal Goodness unwavering. Educated in the faith of Universalism, she believed to the last in the final salvation of all God's children.
  • Oliver Johnson, in obituary in The Tribune, quoted in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 187

External links

• Profile at UUA.org
• Alice Cary at Find-a-grave.com
• Alice Cary (1820-1871)
• Cary Cottage
• Cary Oak