Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious EpitaphsNorfolk, Horatio Edward
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Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs
Norfolk, Horatio Edward
Epitaphs; Epitaphs -- Great Britain
The Dame, who lies interred within this tomb,
Had Rachel’s charms, and Leah’s fruitful womb,
Ruth’s filial love, and Lydia’s faithful heart,
Martha’s just care, and Mary’s better part.
* * * * *
A comparison of the virtues of the deceased and those of Scripture
characters is found on a monument of Sir Charles Cæsar at Bennington,
Herts:—
Nathaniel Daniel Jonathan Uzzita Josephus
Simplicitate Toro Pectore Prole Thoro
* * * * *
Beneath this stone, where now your eye you fix,
Ann Harris lies, who died in sixty-six;
John Harris after her his exit made
In eighty-two, and now is with her laid.
* * * * *
“Sacred to the memory of Miss Martha Gwynn,
Who was so very pure within,
She burst the outer shell of sin,
And hatched HERSELF A CHERUBIM.”
HODDESDON.
Captain Henry Graves, died 17th Aug. 1702,
Aged 52 years.
Here, in one Grave, more than one Grave lies—
Envious Death at last hath gained his prize;
No pills or potions could make Death tarry,
Resolved he was to fetch away Old Harry.
Ye foolish doctors, could you all miscarry?
Great were his actions on the boisterous waves,
Resistless seas could never conquer Graves.
Ah! Colchester, lament his overthow,
Unhappily, you lost him at a blow;
Each marine hero for him shed a tear,
St. Margaret’s, too, in this must have a share.
HERTFORD.
WOMAN.
“Grieve not for me, my husband dear,
I am not dead, but sleepeth here;
With patience wait, prepare to die,
And in a short time you’ll come to I.”
MAN.
“I am not grieved, my dearest life;
Sleep on,—I have got another wife;
Therefore, I cannot come to thee,
For I must go and live with she.”
ALDENHAM.
John Robinson.
Death parts the dearest Lovers for awhile,
And makes them mourn, who only used to smile,
But after Death our unmixt loves shall tie
Eternal knots betwixt my dear and I.
Huntingdonshire.
BLUNTISHAM.
On a Wrestler.
Here lyes the Conqueror conquered,
Valient as ever England bred;
Whom neither art, nor steel, nor strength,
Could e’er subdue, till death at length
Threw him on his back, and here he lyes,
In hopes hereafter to arise.
Kent.
CRAYFORD.
Here lieth the body of Peter Isnel (30 years clerk of this parish.)
He lived respected as a pious and mirthful man, and died on his way
to church, to assist at a wedding, on the 31st day of March, 1811,
aged 70 years. The inhabitants of Crayford have raised this stone to
his cheerful memory, and as a tribute to his long and faithful
service.
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