How vain the monumental Praise
Our partial Friends devise!

While Trophies der our Dust they raise,
Poetic-Fictions rise.

Say what avails, if good or bad
I now am represented;

If happily the Faults I had
Sincerely were repented?

A Friend, a Wife, or both in one,

By Love, by Time endear'd,
Shall vanish Falsehood from the Stone
That covers her JOHN BEARD.

He died the 4. of February 1791,
Aged 74 years.

Hampton Vol. XII page 80

How vain the monumental Praise
our partial Friends devise!
While Trophies der our Dust they raise,
Poetic Fictions rise.
Say what avails, if good or bad
I now am represented;
If happily the Faults I had
sincerely were repented?
A Friend, a Wife, or both in one,
By Love, by Time endeard,
Shall banish Falsehood from the Stone
That covers her JOHN BEARD.
He died the 4. of February 1791,
Aged 74 years.

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