THE EPITAPH.

30. “Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,

A youth to fortune and to fame unknown;

Fair Science frown’d not on his humble birth,

And melancholy mark’d him for her own.

31. “Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,

Heav’n did a recompense as largely send:

He gave to mis’ry all he had—a tear;

He gain’d from heaven (’twas all he wish’d) a friend.

32. “No farther seek his merits to disclose,