, 1862-03-20
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SHe dEd do mueh harm, mar yrt murh e,.A. -.l,i
And migh'hAve been much better, n BE- Ssld-S -
But truth Is not the object fepltnphs, una Ihuve
never SEEN il written upon tGmbsfOns. ,-tTlfr
In All Saints Church, at Cahb, idRe tItyeaIS
some really beautiful lines upon the dCalh e s
young person: TF~ rfTIETe
"She took the cup Of life to sip, -
Too bitter twas to drain, iI@A
She put It meekly from her lip,
And went 70 sleep again." .sre.5g
And here are q couple Of simple but suggestive
lines tthe conclusion Of dull itanza) which en-
nt 10 stand Dy t9e SIDE Of them; e...cbai .i,4si
~ am amazed That Death, that .yran, Dd9,
Should thiBk on ne, ShO never sko1Vhs % hlnp ealg
In TintageI Church, Cornwall, 6s fFead ND
my notebook) there are these four lines, o. uhish
the latter twQ would not, think, be unworthy a
any Of our British poets: .-..-..,,..''
"The body that here buried lies
By lightning fell deaths sacrifice; 9
To him Elijahs fate was given, - y
He rode on flames Of Ere 70 heasn" ~
There is an Incompetence about many epitapti;
Of which this one 10 Wrexham Charchyad , 1
case In point; ~ 8ii.e' - -.
Here lies John shers; ssi7aa
say no more; ~,
lie was altve
In -65"
And in others there is inofe stated than 8 quils
necessary. In Grantlmm ChGfchyafd We rea1
John Pallreyman, who is buried hars
Was aged four and twenty year; 4. q, ~
And near this place bis mother les;
Likewise his father, Whca be dieS."
This superhuousness sometimes extends evtn u
manifest ialsehood, a. in Lanymynech ChurchyArdi
IN MontgOmeryshire, where 4 Is thus written:
Here lies John Thomas, ~
And bis three children dear, iH
Two are buried ct OsRstfy
Aud one here" -, ,..s.. i.
Here is gehllevoman Who, if may % ipealg
Of . gentle~oman departed, appears tohave thought
BY no means small beer Of herself;
"a good mother hsye been,
Many tronbles have speh.
An my life I've done my best,
-l- And 90 hope my souls q rest
wonder that she dos bot say, de 3 nm e nj
Many appeaF buoyant, however, not % much ffom
sense Of their own merits as through . naturd
elasticity Of disposition, q in he case that lot
lows
"HeFe lies I, There's an end to my NooS;
And my spirit at length at ale &;
With the tip Of my nose, g
And the tops Of my toes, 6
Turned up to Tie tootS Of the daiieA-
Others have the sane philosophical spirit, tinrsd
with good -humored SafcGsuii ssa-~,
"Here lies at the chaneel door,
Here lies because ! am poor.
At the further end the more you pay,
But here lies / as warm as they" paA
These are not bad lines upon . fisherman;
"This man BY worms was led,
The worms procufed him fsh,. y
But now that be l. dead, ss fy
The worms will have their dial"
Although somewhat deficient IN tenderness ths
same charge must be laid against this u Memo
Fiam to Mr.. John Law: s,L,H .t, .s y a
q Here lies John Law,
Attorney at Law
And when he did " aJ
The devil sried,-- @s s7gN
Give Us yOdr paw, sf
John Law, .i5,t.s 5 ts4
Attorney 1t law" ..l
The following reference TO one M. slrhiTG u tkS
same profession, Is, on the contrary. eOmpliash-
4fieFFe lies an honest lawyer,
And that Is Strange"
Doctor l. Letsome wrote the following ep;itibh
for bis own tombstone; butt Is not likely thatle
allowed bis friends. or at lent hS patehll toredd
It until he was under the turf OF out oI psaetcsi
Swhen peoples in. they comes toll tasi
physics, bleeds, and sWeats em; rrs
Sometimes they live, sometimes they de;
What's that to 1! ELetsOme.n QetS em,l
The best Of these professional adieus & however.
that on a certain Mrs. Shoven. q cook. II conShts
Of two stanzas, or, us she might have called them
herself couple Of courses: H
"Cnderneath this crust a -.
Les the mOuldering dust
or Eleanor Bachelor Skoven,
Well versed In the arts ott sid
on pies custards, and tafla al tfW
And t,e lucrative trade Of the ovsni a
swhen she'd lived long enough, eaBa
She made her last pun :. s..'. -,
A puff by her husband much praised u
And now she doth lie
And make q dirt pie, Aase w {a.t
In hopes that her crust may Be raiSea."
! cannot concloie these joltibkS ffon de torhbs'
more tly than with this soice, q fstief With theso
two voices. A reward was once offered Or The
best epitaph upon celebrated provost Of Dundee.
The town council were unable 10 decide between
the relative merits Of the two which follow, md
both were therefore placed on the Inondhent
".Here lies John. Provost Of DUNDEE
Here lies Him, here lies He"
The second ran even still more renArkahlys
." Here lies john, Provost d DuRdea,
HaIlelgjah, Ilallelqjee" a
An trishnan being recently on : titilI6F talAi