With unelaborate headstone beautified,

Conspicuous 'mid the other stoneless heaps

'Neath which the children of the valley lie.

There pause—and with no common feelings read

This short inscription—'Here lies buried

The Flying Tailor, aged twenty-nine!'

Him from his birth unto his death I knew,

And many years before he had attain'd

The fulness of his fame, I prophesied

The triumphs of that youth's agility,