In Trinity church-yard, New York, this inscription may be read:
"Val. ——
Sidney Breese.
June 9 17—.
Made by himself.
Ha! Sidney, Sidney
Liest thou here?
I lye here
Till Times last Extremity."
Upon a stone, under the Grocers' Arms, is this inscription, in memory of Garrard, a tea-dealer:
"Garret some called him
But that was too lye
His name is Garrard
Who now here doth lye
Weepe not for him
Since he is gone before
To heaven where Grocers
There are many more."
The value of phonetic spelling is set forth in this terse memorial:
"Here lies two brothers by misfortune surrounded
One died of his wounds, the other was drounded."
Resignation and an eye to the main chance are combined in the following:
"Beneath this stone, in hope of Zion
Doth lie the landlord of the Lion,
His son keeps in the business still
Resigned unto the heavenly Will."
In a church-yard in Wiltshire, England:
"Beneath this stone lies our dear child
Whos' gone away from we
For evermore into eternity;
When we do hope that we shall go to he
But him can never come back to we."