Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-11-20

Is IN Ireland, IN Athlone churchyard.
Another Irish epitaph, in Ballindown,
county Sligo, runs thus =
ference McDonogh lies within this grave.
That says enough for all that's generous, brave,
Facetious, friendly, witty, Just, and good.
For ii includes whate 'er we virtue call
And is the hieroglyphie of them all.
That facetiousness" is a virtue, and
a virtue to be inscribed on a tombstone,
is a rather new idea to US, still there is a
great deal to be said in its favor. A GU
rious study of national character, and
also of the character Of different ages |
and classes, might be made by noting
the special qualities selected for APPROX
al, and of the many human merits heap
ed on the deserving and ndeserving
dead. AS none but an Irishman would
haveschosen " facetious" as choice epi-
thet of approval, SO none but an Italion
would have praised deceased marquis,
scion of one Of the great historic houses
of Florence, by describing him Gas we
have seen on his funeral tablet as re-
markable for tiugality. An English
nobleman would hardly have accepted
the phrase as laudatory, and, as to an
Irish one, no more cruel outrage could
be perpetrated on his helpless corpse,
than to place over it such word.
We have always felt satisfied that that
most delicious of all epitaphs which eel
citrate the virtues of Lady O'Looney,
must have been composed by her conf
Dental maid. We only repeat it here
to illustrate our hypothesis -
Here lies Lady OLooney
Great niece of Burke, commonly called The Sub
lime"
| do we not know how often the depart
ed lady must have told her maid of her
distinguished relationship, and of Burke's
soubriquet?)
She was blande passionate, and deeply religious,
CThe " blandness" had been a matter of
remark down stairs; the passionateness"
alass perhaps matter Of experience -
The conjunction of the two qualities, and
the simple, unvarnished veracity by
which they are followed by deep piety,
speak trumpet-tongued for the integrity
of the faithful domestic)
Also she painted in water-colors,
{" Also" leads up finely from the deeI
Righteousness TO the great event of Lady
O'Looney's life.)
And sent several pictures to the Exhibition,
: Where, oh where, and when, was helC
the Exhibition which should have beer
made forever memorable by the "sever
al pictures" of the gifted lady whicl
adorned its wals-the Exhibition which
D to her devoted follower was manifest,
4 the only Exhibition in the world worth,
of the nameD
"She was first cousin of Lady Jones,
(Crowning triumph Of life, and, at tn
same time, valuable genealogical indies
o tion.)
o And of such is the Kingdom of Heaven!'
Namely, of bland, passionate, and deel
ly religious ladies; Of artists and exhil
: itors in water-colors and, above all,
cousins-german to Lady Jones. Tl
n sudden turn of this phrase to the scri
,e tural and prophetic utterance after IL
more didatic treatment of the subject
the earlier part Of the epitaph, is one
the most striking in the range of liter
ture. The mantle of Lady OLooney
bland religion had certainly descendt
- probably with the rest of her war
robe-to her encomist.
To leave these speculations shall '
class among the Intentionally or uninte
. tionally grotesque epitaphs the followin
- composed by three Scotch friends,
whom the person commemorated had l'
,, a legacy, with the hope expressed th
,rs they would honor him by some record
oh their regrets? The first friend compos
dv the line which naturally opened the e
ne tapn -
49,, Provost Peter Patterson was Provost Of Dundee
The second added =
'u' Provost Peter Patterson. here lies he.''
ar The third could suggest no other conc
on sion than
"ITaleluiah Hallelujeei"
ITS. The following must have been iatt
err ing to the bereaved widower:-
aHere lies the body Of Mary Ford,
Whose soul We trust. is with the Lords
But If for he'll she's changed this life,
us better than being John Ford's wife.
led We wonder whether the old bache
commemorated in the next would ha
endorsed the epitaph provided for hi
AT threeseere winters en- end . died