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To this grave is committed All that the Grave can claim Of two Brothers ----- and ---- ------ Who on the vii of October MDCCLVII, Both unfortunately perished in the --- water: The one in his xxii, the other in his xviii year. Their disconsolate Father -------------- Erects this monument to the memory of These amiable Youths; Whose early virtues promised Uncommon comfort to his declining years, And singular emolument to society. O Thou! whose steps in sacred reverence tread These lone dominions of the silent Dead; On this sad stone a pious look bestow, Nor uninstructed read this tale of woe; And while the sigh of sorrow heaves thy breast, Let each rebellious murmur be supprest; Heaven's hidden ways to trace, for us, how vain! Heaven's wise decrees, how impious, to arraign! Pure from the stains of a polluted age, In early bloom of life, they left the stage: Not doom'd in lingering woe to waste their breath One moment snatch'd Them from the power of Death: They liv'd united, and united died; Happy the friends, whom Death cannot divide!