which are remarkable for their poetry of expression such as—
"Her beautiful eyes are closed in calm sleep.
"This stone was placed by the husband, with that sorrow which the agonized heart feels but cannot speak of."
Also on a mother and her infant:—
"Here reposes the first kiss of love:
The mother went before, the infant followed."
The Epitaph of Mr. Beckford, in the Lansdowne Cemetery, near Bath, is very remarkable. One sentence alone in all his writings seemed to shew some faint apprehension of divine truth. This sentence his daughter has found consolation in placing on his grave:—
"Eternal God,
Grant me, thro' obvious clouds, one transient gleam
Of Thy bright Essence in my dying hour."
Of innumerable curious and beautiful Latin Epitaphs, the following are examples:—
"Hic jacet vir, perpendiculariter honestus."
"William Bassett, |
Catherine Bassett, |
| "Vitæ ambo et mortis par fuit ipsa dies." | |
