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them were not SO chaste, not so spiritual, often
more epigramatic, mere Jeu-desprns-exprcs
sive of any quality, good or bad, Of the party
neither in good taste, nor with due reverential
propriety. The bacchanalian epitaph in Great
Woolford church, Warwickshire, would not
have been admitted into an earlier period Of
church history.
The following lines express the qualification
necessary to write an epitaph
"He that would write an epitaph on thee,
And do it well, must first begin to be
Such as thou wert; for none can truly know
Thy worth, thy life, bu, he that lived so"
Dr.. DOME:
In the Economy Of Human Life" we are
told that "to mourn without measure is folly
not to mourn at all, shows insensibilty."
The Germans have a maxim, at is h%onoura-
bic for women to bewail the dead--the men to
remember them"
Verses on the tomb of Florens Caldwell, ESQ,
St. Martins church, Ludgatc, London, date 1900:
Earth goes to As mould to mould.
Earth treals on >Eor,b Glit,ering in gold.
Earth as TO Return ne'er should,
Earth snail be Go where would.
Earth upon Consider may
Earth though on Earth Be stout and gay.
EARN snail rom Passe poore away.
"Be merciful and charitable,
Relieve the poor as thou art able;
A shroud to thy grave
Is oil thou shalt have!
On an old monument in St. Ann and St, Az.
ness church, London.
Gu o, a" sui. iris d' 70 c UNI Vul n.,. ''rs i,
san chris mi mu mere
In this distich, the last syllable of each word
In the upper line, is the same as that of each
corresponding word in the last line, and is to be
found in the centre. 1t reads thus:
Quos angus tristri diro cum vulnere stravit
Hos sanguis christi miro tum munere iayir.
Translated thus:
Those who have felt the ~serpent's venom'd wound
In Christ's miraculous blood hath healing found.
On WIDLfAM LAWEs, an eminent composer, uhc
was killed in battle by The Roundkeads:
Concord is conquered! In this urn their lies
The master OF great muslc's mysteries:
And in it is a riddle like the cause,
Will Lawes wasslain by men whose Wills Lawes wer,
o DANIEL BLANcHFoRD, (Who died in 1871 in
OrhiH church, Warwickshire.
When was young I ventured life and blood
no.H ior my KING and for my country's goods
Soldier TO Him who shed his blood for me!
ON CHILDREN.
Beneath a sleeping infant lies,
3Twase earth TO ashes lent;
slime he shall more glorious rise,
But not more innocent!
When the Archansel's trumpet sounds,
And souls to body join,
Many would wish their lives below
Had been as short as thine!
II babes, ell innocence and truth,
R6ssess bright virtues charms,
Why do we mourn departed youth,
Or sb,ink a; DEATHS alarms7
MI. x.,art. s,on N. .,sb:np tear.
Nor pine at Heavens decree
Your darinR's safe beyond a fer,
From guilt and sorrow free!
In st. Giles church, Shrewsbury. Initials onl
-" j. w, 1855.
,lo Stir not my bones, which are laid in clay,
-s For l must rise at resurrection day.
In Brighdhelmstone old church:
The hour concealed, and 30 remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
A Bacchanalian Epitaph in Great Woodtor
church, Warpickshire:
Here old John Randall lies.
Who, counting from his tale,
% Lived three score years and ten,
f.-- Such virtue was in ole.
l Ale was his meat,
Ale was his drink,
9W"f Ale did his heart revive;
rttrErt And fhe could have drank his ale,
.H. He still had been alive!
He died January 9th, 1880
"Ihis epitaph was placed there by order
Msjo, Thomas Keyt, a person well known 4
his good humor and hospitality, and general
beloved in the country."f
In Niendsbury Graveyard, near Chatham, 10
Time waeI stood o. thou dost now,
Z, a7r- And view'd the dead a. thou dost me;
Ere long thoult lie % low ~ J.,
And others stand to look on thee!