Here you will find thePoemEpitaph: Being Part Of An Inscription For A Monumentof poet James Beattie
Farewell, my best-beloved; whose heavenly mind Genius with virtue, strength with softness join'd; Devotion, undebased by pride or art, With meek simplicity, and joy of heart. Though sprightly, gentle; though polite, sincere; And only of thyself a judge severe; Unblamed, unequall'd in each sphere of life, The tenderest Daughter, Sister, Parent, Wife, In thee, their Patroness, th' afflicted lost; Thy friends, their pattern, ornament, and boast; And I - but ah, can words my loss declare, Or paint th' extremes of transport and despair! O Thou, beyond what verse or speech can tell, My guide, my friend, my best-beloved, farewell!
