An Epitaph.

"Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville     May, 1863     The Man who fiercest charged in fight,     Whose sword and prayer were long--         Ston"

"Of The Young Master of a Wrecked California Clipper     Come out of the Golden Gate,     Go round the Horn with streamers,     Carry royals early"

"In bed I muse on Tenier's boors,     Embrowned and beery losels all;         A wakeful brain         Elaborates pain:     Within low doors the"

"[21] No trophy this - a Stone unhewn, And stands where here the field immures The nameless brave whose palms are won. Outcast they sleep; ye"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"