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In this way it came about that the mourning family determined they should be engraven. And there the lines stand to-day in the hills’ beautiful air—far more than a century since the hour when Mistress Remembrance and the stone-cutter joined the celestial choir in which Master Stephen was that very evening singing.
But another headstone—
“With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked”—
quite outdoes Master Kelsey’s in strange English phrase. It reads:
“Michel son of John Spencer
died Jan ye 24
1756 in y
10
year of his age.
Death Conquers All
Both young and Old
Tho’ ne’er so wise
Discreet and Bold
In helth and Strength
this youth did Die
in a moment without one Cry.”
And still another perpetuates the record of the same family:
In Memory of
Mr John Spencer Who
Died June y
24
1780 in the 70
Year of his Age
In Memory of Submit
Spencer Daughter of Mr
John and Mrs Mary
Spencer Who Died
Nov
y
21
1755 in y
1
Year of her Age
Oh Cruel Death to fill this
Narrow space In yonder
House Made a vast emty place
Was the child called “Submit” because born a woman! Or did the parents embody in the name their own spiritual history of resignation to the eternal powers?—“to fill this narrow space, in yonder house made a vast empty place.”
Farther up the slope of this God’s Acre a shaft standing high in the soft light mourns the hazards of our passage through the world.
In Memory of Mr.
Jeduthun Goodwin who
Died Feb 13
1809 Aged
40 Years
Also Mrs. Eunice his
Wife who died August 6
1802 Aged 33 Years
Dangers stand thick
through all the Ground
To Push us to the Tomb
And fierce diseases
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