Fill’d every breast with sorrow and each eye
With piteous tears.
On the southeasterly side:—
This monument marks the resting place of sixty of the seventy two mariners, “who perished in their strife with the storm,” and is erected by Stephen Gale of Portland, Maine, a stranger to them, as a just memorial of their sufferings and death.
Another of Mrs. Austin’s characters is Hannah Howland, who is said to have died of a broken heart on account of Ring’s sad end. Her stone is to be found on the crown of the hill, not far from the Le Baron graves. Its inscription reads:—
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
To the memory of Miss Hannah Howland, who died of a
Languishment, January ye 25th 1780 Ætatis 26.
For us they languish, & for us they die
And shall they languish shall they die in vain.