Some poetry and verse, which can be read mainly on the rear of some monuments.
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"The grave disolves each social tye, And tells us too that we must die, And then corruption see, Happy they are whose hopes do rise, High as the honours of the skies, Where joys immortal be" ___________________________________ "Weep not husband and nor infant dear, Altho alone Im sleeping here, Weep not the now my grave you see, Prepare yourselves to follow me, My time has come, my glass has run, The will of God, it must be done" ___________________________________ "To serve the nation he crossed the ocean Exposed to storms and snow. By the decree at the most high He harbours here below And here he lies at anchor sure At his repose to sweet Waiting the call, All hands make sail Our Admiral Christ to meet." ___________________________________ "The Child of youth, the man of years Here Undistinguished lie. We plainly see, by Heavens Decree That every age Must Die." ___________________________________ "Stop, Passenger, for here doth lye Three pleasant jewels of sweet infancie Three harmless babs that only came & cryed In baptism to be washed from sin, & dyed." ___________________________________ "How sound is thy slumber, Like the dew on the mountain Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain Thou art gone and forever."
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