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S. M.
ALEXANDRI METCALF FISHER,
Collegii Yalensis,
Primò Alumni, deindè Tutoris,
Posteà Mathescos et Philosophiæ Naturalis
Professoris;
Qui
Ingenio capaci, et acerrimo judicio
Præitus,
In studia doctrinæ adeò incubuit,
Ut cùm adhuc intra juventutis annos
Ejus versaretur ætas,
Propè summum literarum fastigium
Attigisset.
His insuper laudibus,
Cæteras, quæ virum bonum commendant,
Virtutes,
Comitatem,
Benevolentiam,
Morum probitatem,
Fidem in officiis fungendis maximam,
Et summam Dei reverentiam
Addiderat.
Et cùm amore literarum
Et studio alias regiones visendi ductus,
In Europam navigaret,
Ad oras Hiberniæ,
Eheu! tristi naufragio
Periit:
Die xxii. Aprilis, anno sacro M.DCCC.XXII.
Ætatis XXVIII.

## Inscription for a Tombstone.

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Thy grave, O Fisher, is the rolling flood,
Thy urn, the rock, eternal reared by God!
But near thy home, raised by affectionate hand
To speak thy name, this simple stone shall stand.
How dark the scene still Faith directs on high!
Beyond those orbs, that charmed thy youthful eye,
There, now thy noble mind expanding glooms
In floods of light, nor paine, nor darkness knows,
Youth, Genius, Knowledge, Virtue past away,
From earth's dim shores, to Heavens eternal day.

## Another.

By C. B. D.

The waves that ceaseless, lave the Hibernian shore,
Fisher now harmlessly over thy relies roar.
There stand the lifted rock, the arching flood
Thy monument, eternal—built by God!
Yet, near the home that blessed thy youthful years,
The sculptured stone parental hindues rears.
But, more than all, the friendly heart shall be
The lasting tablet, deep inscribed, for thee;
A name, beloved and wept! to memory dear
While Genius, Knowledge, Worth, are honoured here!

By Prof. F. Stock

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