Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr Caroline has known me all my life. It was my privilege to see her out of hers. After my father’s death, to Mammy I came to represent the head of that family to which she had given a half century of fidelity and devotion. But the relationship between us never became that of master and servant. She still remained one of my earliest recollections, not only as a person, but as a fount of authority over my conduct and of security for my physical welfare, and of active and constant affection and love. She was an active and constant precept for decent behavior. From her I learned to tell the truth, to refrain from waste, to be considerate of the weak and respectful to age. I saw fidelity to a family which was not hers, devotion and love for people she had not borne. She was born in bondage and with a dark skin and most of her early maturity was passed in a dark and tragic time for the land of her birth. She went through vicissitudes which she had not caused; she assumed cares and griefs which were not even her cares and griefs. She was paid wages for this, but pay is still just money. And she never received very much of that, so that she never laid up anything of this world’s goods. Yet she accepted that too without cavil or calculation or complaint, so that by that very failure she earned the gratitude and affection of the family she had conferred the fidelity and devotion upon, and gained the grief and regret of the aliens who loved and lost her. She was born and lived and served, and died and now is mounted; if there is a heaven, she has gone there. 为卡洛琳·巴尔大妈所致的悼词 卡洛琳自我出生以来一直跟我相熟，能为她送终是我莫大的荣幸。家父去世后，我在大妈眼里就成了一家之主，大妈为这个家庭忠心耿耿地奉献了半个世纪。然而，我们之间从来都不是主仆关系。她至今还依然留在我最早的记忆中，不仅是作为一个人，而且是作为指导我的行为和保障我身体健康的源泉，也是积极而持久的深情厚爱源泉。她还是正直行为的积极而持久的典范。从她那里，我学会了说实话，不浪费，体贴弱者，尊重长者。我见到了一种对于并非是自家人的忠诚，对于并非是亲生的子女的深情厚爱。 她生下来就处于受奴役的境地。她长着黑皮肤，在她长大成人的早期阶段，大部分时间是在她诞生地的黑暗而悲惨的岁月中度过的。她经历过盛衰变故，可那都有不是她造成的；她体会到忧虑和悲伤，然而那都不是她自己的忧虑和悲伤。别人为此给她付工钱，可是付给的仅仅是钱而已。何况她得到的从来就不多，因此她从未积下什么身外之物。可是她还是接受了这一现实，豪不挑剔，豪不计较，豪不抱怨，正因为如此，她赢得了她奉献出忠心耿耿的一家人的感激和热爱，也获得了热爱她、失去她的异族人的哀悼和痛惜。 她由出生，到成长，到帮佣，到去世，如今她受到哀悼；如果真有天堂的话，她一定到那里去了。
