Another instance of how rhyming difficulties may be overcome is as follows:
"Here lies the remains of Thomas Woodhen,
The most amiable of husbands and excellent of men.
"N. B.—His real name was Woodcock, but it wouldn't come in rhyme. His Widow."
The subjoined contains a solemn warning:
"My wife has left me, she's gone up on high,
She was thoughtful while dying, and said 'Tom, don't cry.'
She was a great beauty, so every one knows,
With Hebe like features and a fine Roman nose;
She played the piany, and was learning a ballad,
When she sickened and die-did from eating veal salad."
Upon a tombstone in Pennsylvania:
"Battle of Shiloh.
April 6 1862
John D L was born March 26 1839 in the town of West Dresden State of New York where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest."
A tombstone in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has these lines:
"When you my friends are passing by,
And this inform you where I lie,
Remember you ere long must have,
Like me, a mansion in the grave,
Also 3 infants, 2 sons and a daughter."