Epitaphs for Aged Persons Epitaphs for Special Persons and Circumstances Admonitory Epitaphs Supplicatory Epitaphs Epitaphs expressing Confidence and Trust in God. Epitaphs expressing Happiness and Joy in departure Epitaphs referring to Heaven and Eternal Life 66 68 75 89 96 114 127 143 150 162 167 173 H EPITAPHS. APPROPRIATE TO INFANCY. APPY the babe who, privileged by fate To shorter labour and a lighter weight, Received but yesterday the gift of breath, Ordered to-morrow to return to death. PRIOR. H, babes! could Heaven in mercy give But a few moments doomed to live, Just shown on earth to die? Weak man, the vain inquiry cease Why heaven hath called them hence; Pure from the world, they died in peace, They died in innocence. AREWELL, sweet babe, the loss is ours, The Shepherd has but called his lamb, To fold thee in his breast. B H APPY infant, early blest! Rest, in peaceful slumbers rest, Early rescued from the cares Which increase with growing years. HE bud that unfolded its charms to the eye, Refused to the earth what belonged to the sky; And those beauties their Maker denied to earth's bowers, Now live in the garden of undying flowers. IRST loved, first lost, a long farewell, WITHIN this urn an infant nine months old Is laid in dust: God takes his purest gold First to Himself. We all are but as flowers That spring and grow, and fade in a few hours. THERE, in the Shepherd's bosom, White as the drifted snow, Is the little lamb that we missed one morn, |