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TARISH OF DUMFEIES. 293
Great care of me did take,
Which makes me to lament my dear departed mate ;
But since it was His will, which is divine,
His blessed will ought always to be mine."
John Mitcliell, who died in 1708, is celebrated thus : —
" If grace, good manners, nor gifts of mind,
Yea, where all moral virtues have combined
Compleat a man, behold beneath this stone
He lyes interr'd, whom rich and poor bemoan.
He run his race, and an entrance got,
His name is savoury and shall not rot."
On the tombstone of a daughter of Sir Thomas Hay, of Park,
are these lines : —
" If sense mature, even in the dawn of years,
If beauty, youth, or innocence endears.
Affections soft with manly spirit joined
With gentle manners, sentiments refined,
If heaven-born piety, serene yet bright.
If filial tenderness the soul delight ;
If these united claim the cordial tear.
Let feeling Nature pay the tribute here."
Sybella McMath, who died in 1838, has her tombstone inscribed
as foUows : —
" A soul prepared needs no delays,
The summons comes, the saint obeys ;
Swift was her flight, and short the road,
She clos'd her eyes and saw her God.
The flesh rests here till Jesus come.
And claims the treasure from the tomb."
These verses are on a tombstone erected in 1837 : —
" Farewell, fond husband and my darling boys,
In whom was centred all my earthly joys ;
The triple union's broke — yet one short space
Will reunite us in the realms of peace.
Kind angels watch the sleeping dust,
Till Jesus come to wake the just ;
Then may we wake with sweet surprise
And in our Saviour's image rise."