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ОглавлениеOur little Jacob has been taken away to bloom in a superior flower pot above.
My wife lies here.
All my tears cannot bring her back;
Therefore, I weep.
This little buttercup was bound to join the heavenly choir
Burlington.
Beneath this stone our baby lays
He neither crys or hollers.
He lived just one and twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars.
Charity wife of Gideon Bligh
Underneath this stone doth lie
Naught was she e'er known to do
That her husband told her to.
Here lies the wife of brother Thomas,
Whom tyrant death has torn from us,
Her husband never shed a tear,
Until his wife was buried here.
And then he made a fearful rout,
For fear she might find her way out.
He first departed, she a little tried to live without him. Liked it not and died.
His illness lay not in one part
But o'er his frame it spread.
The fatal disease was in his heart
And water in his head.
In memory of Elizabeth Taylor
Could blooming years and modesty and all thats pleasing to the eye,
Against grim death been a defence,
Elizabeth had not gone hence.
Died when young and full of promise
Of whooping cough our Thomas.
She lived with her husband fifty years
And died in the confident hope of a better life.
Stop dear parent cast your eye,
And here you see your children lie.
Though we are gone one day before,
You may be cold in a minute more.
Little Teddy, fare thee well,
Safe from earth in Heaven to dwell.
Almost Cherub here below,
Altogether angel now.
On a tombstone for man and wife
In sunny days and stormy weather,
In youth, and age, we clung together.
We lived and loved, laughed and cried
Together—and almost together died.
Windsor.
Behold! I come as a thief
Death loves a shining mark.
In this case he had it.
Stowe.
Erected by a widower in memory of his two wives
This double call is laid to all,
Let none surprise or wonder.
But to the youth it speaks a truth,
In accents loud as thunder.
Stranger pause as you pass by;
My thirteen children with me lie.
See their faces how they shine
Like blossoms on a fruitful vine.
A rum cough carried him off
Here lies the body of old Uncle David,
Who died in the hope of being sa-ved.
Where he's gone or how he fares,
Nobody knows and nobody cares.
The body that lies buried here
By lightning fell, death's sacrifice,
To him Elijah's fate was given
He rode on flames of fire to heaven.
Stay, reader, drop upon this stone
One pitying tear and then be gone:
A handsome pile of flesh and blood
Is here sunk down in its first mud.
I was somebody—who? is no business of yours
My wife from me departed
And robbed me like a knave;
Which caused me broken hearted
To sink into this grave.
My children took an active part,
To doom me did contrive;
Which stuck a dagger in my heart
That I could not survive.
Pious
Open thine eyes Lord
I come! I come!
Sacred to the memory of three twins
My glass is run; yours is running.
Remember death and judgment coming.
This stone was got to keep this lot.
Her father bought. Dig not too near.
Grim death took little Jerry,
The son of Joseph and Sereno Howells,
Seven days he wrestled with the dysentery
And then he perished in his little bowels.
Newfane
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Oh, little Lavina she has gone
To James and Charles and Eliza Ann.
Arm in arm they walk above
Singing the Redeemer's love.
