Serfogee Rajah took immediate steps towards the erection of a monument to commemorate the virtues of his beloved friend, and, writing to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, begged them at his expense to have prepared and send a marble monument to his memory to be placed in the church, and near the pulpit where he preached. He closed his request with the words, “May you, honourable sirs, ever be enabled to send to this country such missionaries as are like the late Rev. Mr. Schwartz!” The work was entrusted to Flaxman, and comprised a beautiful group in bas relief representing the death-bed scene, where among some children and friends Serfogee, the Hindu prince, is holding the hand of his dying friend and receiving his blessing. The inscription is as follows:-- To the memory of the REVEREND CHRISTIAN FREDERIC SCHWARTZ, born at Sonnenburg of Neumark, in the Kingdom of Prussia, the 26th October, 1726, and died at Tanjore, the 13th February, 1798, in the seventy-second year of his age. Devoted from his early manhood to the office of Missionary in the East, the similarity of his situation to that of the first preachers of the Gospel produced in him a similar resemblance to the simple sanctity of the Apostolic character. His natural vivacity won the affection, as his unspotted probity and purity of life alike commanded the reverence, of the Christian, Mohammedan and Hindu; for Sovereign princes, Hindu and Mohammedan, selected this humble pastor as the medium of political negotiation with the British Government, and the very marble which here records his virtues was raised by the liberal affection and esteem of the Rajah of Tanjore, Maha Raja Serfogee. [Illustration: SERFOGEE RAJAH’S MONUMENT TO SCHWARTZ] Still more expressive and touching are the lines which are inscribed on the granite stone which covers the grave of Schwartz, written and composed by Serfogee himself, a curiosity as being the only specimen of English verse ever attempted by a Hindu prince, at any rate up to that time. After the inscription of name and date, the following are the lines of poetry: Firm wast thou, humble and wise, Honest, pure, free from disguise, Father of orphans, the widow’s support, Comfort in sorrow of every sort. To the benighted, dispenser of Light, Doing, and pointing to that which is right. Blessing to princes, to people, to me, May I, my father, be worthy of thee! Wisheth and prayeth thy Sarabojee.