THE GATHERER.
A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
SHAKSPEARE.
PATHETIC EPITAPH.
(To the Editor.)
Among the many monumental inscriptions and epitaphs which have fallen under my notice (and I have been a "Gatherer" ever since the days of my childhood) I have seldom met with one more calculated to start the tender tear than the following, which I copied from an old and long since defunct periodical, which describes it as "placed by a Mr. Thickness on the grave of his daughter, who lies buried in his garden, at St. Catherine's Hermitage, near Bath."
At the Lady's Head is a beautiful Monument, with the following Inscription:
What tho' no sacred earth afford thee room,