A gravestone in Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, states:--

Here lies, retired from busy scenes,

A first lieutenant of Marines,

Who lately lived in gay content

On board the brave ship "Diligent."

Now stripp'd of all his warlike show,

And laid in box of elm below,

Confined in earth in narrow borders,

He rises not till further orders.

Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. · 第 48 / 103 题