Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke + 

Lo! where this silent marble weeps, + 

A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps; + 

A heart, within whose sacred cell + 

The peaceful virtues loved to dwell. + 

Affection warm, and faith sincere, + 

And soft humanity were there. + 

In agony, in death, resigned, + 

She felt the wound she left behind, + 

Her infant image here below + 

Sits smiling on a father’s woe; + 

Whom what awaits, while yet he strays + 

Along the lonely vale of days? + 

A pang, to secret sorrow dear, + 

A sigh, an unavailing tear; + 

Till time shall every grief remove, + 

With life, with memory, and with love. + 