She who lies beneath this stone
Died of constancy alone:
Fear not to approach, oh, passer-by—
Of naught contagious did she die.
One of the simplest, truest, and most dignified epitaphs ever written may be found in the Spectator, No. 518:—
Hic jacet R. C. in expectatione diei supremi.
Qualis erat dies iste indicabit.
AT BARNSTABLE, MASS.
Rev. Joseph Green, 1770, æt. 70.
Think what the Christian minister should be,