Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq.,
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
IN ALVERSTOKE CHURCH, HANTS.
Oh! they shall ne'er forget thee, they who knew
Thy soul benevolent, sincere, and true;
The poor thy kindness cheered, thy bounty fed,
Whom age left shivering in its dreariest shed;
Thy friends, who sorrowing saw thee, when disease
Seemed first the genial stream of life to freeze,
Pale from thy hospitable home depart,
Thy hand still open, and yet warm thy heart!
But how shall she her love, her loss express,
Thy widow, in this uttermost distress,
When she with anguish hears her lisping train
Upon their buried father call in vain!
She wipes the tear despair had forced to flow,
She lifts her look beyond this vale of woe,
And rests (while humbled in the dust she kneels)
On Him who only knows how much she feels.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A BBCCAADDAAEEFFAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 135 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16 |
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