. Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts : its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs. us calms; what sudden storms ; And death attendant in a thousand forms. In memory of Mr Benjamin Harlow who died November18th 1816 aged 34 years. Friends and physicians could not saveMy mortal Body from the GraveNor can the Grave confine me hereWhen Christ the son of God appears The westerly side of the hill abounds in curiousinscriptions, and among them we note the following : — Here lies InterrdThe Body of MsSARAH SPOON-ER who dece-ased JanuaryYe 25th AD 1767In ye 7 2d year ofher a
. Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts : its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs. us calms; what sudden storms ; And death attendant in a thousand forms. In memory of Mr Benjamin Harlow who died November18th 1816 aged 34 years. Friends and physicians could not saveMy mortal Body from the GraveNor can the Grave confine me hereWhen Christ the son of God appears The westerly side of the hill abounds in curiousinscriptions, and among them we note the following : — Here lies InterrdThe Body of MsSARAH SPOON-ER who dece-ased JanuaryYe 25th AD 1767In ye 7 2d year ofher age. She waswidow to S^* (The hand points to the next stone, which marks the graveof her husband.) Sacred to the memory of Phebe J. Bramhall, A native ofVirginia & wife of Benjn Bramhall Jun who died August 27,1817, aged 21 years. Possessd of an amiable disposition, She endeared herself to all around her but Weep not for her in her Spring time she flew To that land, where the wings of the soul are unfurld And now, like a star beyond evenings cold dew Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world. 41. Consecrated to the Memory of Mrs Mary Dyer who diedApril 17th 1805 aged 47 years One thing is needfull And Mary hath chosen that Good partwhich shall not be taken away from her.
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