...sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletler'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : Ami many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfuluess a prey. This pleasing anxious being t'er resign'd, On some fond breast the parting soul...

...universal practice of raising .Sepulchral Monuments, and js finely illustrated by the plaintive Gray : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; - Left tiie warm precincts of the cliearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'nng louk, behind...

...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many...ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting si>ul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries,...

...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by l.li' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts ot the cheerful day, Nor 1 cast one longing, ling'ring, look behind...

...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...

...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt bj th' unklterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. / For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasiny, anxious being e'er resign'd,...

...lately purchased in the burying-ground on the Calton. 9 Mr. Hume died at Edinburgh, August 25th, 1776. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?"...

...in his turn not to be overlooked as a trifler, or as a labourer about nothing, operose nihil agendo. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind I...

...should not have a proper relish for life, or that we should be indifferent about its extinction ; " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering wish behind •"...

...deck'd. Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th'unleiter•tl muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many...moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, • . Thjs pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd. Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor...