Perhaps I fell below them all,—what then?

Suffice it, stranger, that thou seest a tomb;

Thou know’st its use,—it hides,—no matter whom.

ANTITHESIS EXTRAORDINARY.

The following singular inscription may be seen on a monument in Horsley Down Church, Cumberland, England:—

Here lie the bodies of

Thomas Bond and Mary his wife.

She was temperate, chaste, and charitable.

But

She was proud, peevish, and passionate.