I read his name, which there stood number three,

And there I also read these doleful rhymes,”

Epitaph

“Here rests a youth lamented but by few;

A barrister, to fame and courts unknown.

Brief was his life—yet was it briefless, too,

For no attorney mark’d him for his own.

“Deep and correct his knowledge of the laws,

No judge a rule of his could e’er refuse;

He never lost a client or a cause,