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"Sweet Babe Fair Well
The Loss is Ours
For you Are Gone to Rest,
The Shepard has But
Call'd His Own

to Fold you in his Breast."

In the old churchyard of Belturbet, Ireland :

"Here lies JOHN HIGLEY, whose father and mother were drowned on their passage from America. Had they both lived, they would have been buried here."

In Tottenham churchyard, to the memory of Mrs. DEBORAH WHITE, who died on the 25th July, 1805, at the age of 40.

"Sorrow and pain is worn me quite !
And death is welcome at my sight,
The life i led was only a dream?
And every earthly thing was mean,
My husband due! not weep at me,
the blessed one shall see."

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On General TULLY :

"Here lies General TULLY,

Aged one hundred and five years fully
Nine of his wives beside him doth lie,

And also the others, when they die."

On a beautiful stone, in a village churchyard, near Eye, in Suffolk :

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In His 91st year.

I will lay me down in piece and sleep: &c."

In St. Philip's churchyard, Birmingham :"O cruel Death! how could you be so unkind, To take him before-and leave me behind.

You should have taken both of us, if either

Which would have been more pleasing to the survivor."

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"Here lieth the body of BETTY BOWDEN,
Who would live longer but she coulden*
Sorrow and grief made her decay,
Till her bad leg card † her away."

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In Monkwearmouth churchyard, Durham :"In memory of SARAH WILLOCK wife of John Willock, Wo died August 15th 1825 aged 48 years.

She was, But Reason For Bids me to Sa what,
But think what a women should Be, and She was that."

In Waddingham churchyard :

"In love we liv'd, in peace did part, All tho' it cot us to the Heart,

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O dear—what thoughts whe two had

To get for our 12 children Bread:

Lord! send her health them to mentain :I hope to meet my love again."

At Ilton, in Somersetshire :

"If love and care could me prevent,

I had not thus so early went."

In Sculcoate's churchyard, Yorkshire :-
"In memory of JOHN WEST.
Also 2 Childer who died Infants."

In a churchyard, in Ireland, is this epitaph: "Here lie two children dear,

One buried in England, the other here."

At Chiswick :

"J. L. H. born December 19. 1802.
Died January 8. 1802."

PARISH CLERKS AND SEXTONS.

In Crayford churchyard, Kent :

"Here lieth the body of PETER ISNEL (30 years clerk of this parish). He lived respected as a pious and a 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.

The life of this clerk was just three-score and ten,
Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen.
In his youth he was married, like other young men,
But his wife died one day, so he chanted Amen.
A second he took-she departed-what then?
He married and buried a third with Amen;
Thus his joys and his sorrows were treble, but then
His voice was deep bass, so he sung out Amen ;
On the horn he could blow as well as most men,
So his horn was exalted in blowing Amen.
But he lost all his wind after threescore and ten,
And now with three wives, he waits till again,
The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen."

On a country sexton, in Wexham churchyard :—
"Here lies Old HARE, worn out with care,
Who whilom toll'd the bell;

Could dig a grave, or set a stave,
And say 'Amen' full well.

For sacred song, he'd Sternhold's tongue,
And Hopkin's eke also;

With cough and hem, he stood by them
As far as lungs would go.

Many a feast for worms he drest,
Himself then wanting bread,

But, lo! he's gone with skin and bone
To starve 'em now he's dead.

Here take his spade-and use his trade,
Since he is out of breath:
Cover the bones of him who once
Wrought journey-work for death."

In Bakewell churchyard, Derbyshire. Mr. Rowe filled the office of parish clerk, of Bakewell, and if the gravestone flatters not, "with great ability." It tells us in humble prose, that "the natural powers of his voice, in clearness, strength, and sweetness, were altogether unequalled," a commendation which is reiterated in verse on the stone of his son, in the same churchyard, and who succeeded him in the office of parish clerk. It is inscribed as follows:

"To the memory of PHILIP ROE, Parish Clerk of Bakewell, who departed this life on the 12th September,

1815,

The vocal powers here let us mark,
Of PHILIP our late parish clerk.
In church one never heard a layman
With clearer voice say 'Amen.'

Who now with hallelujah sound

Like him can make the roofs rebound?

The choir lament his choral tones,

The town so soon here laid his bones.

Sleep undisturbed within thy peaceful shrine,

Till angels wake thee with such notes as thine."

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