(What will not mortals do to be

Relieved of misery?)

He went right early to the burying-ground,

And on a tombstone—’twas the first he found—

These words, delighted, read:

“Stranger, what man he was who sleeps below,

This monument and epitaph may show.

The wonder of his time was he,

The pattern of most genuine piety;

And that thou all in a few words may’st learn,