John Hart, Portsmouth, NH, 1777
Jacob Tilton, Portsmouth, NH, 1776
Deborah Parrott, Portsmouth, NH, 1779
I'm very interested in gravestones that recognize public events. The Jason Russell stone is a good example of a stone dedicated to a single person that nonetheless has a lot to say about current events. These three stones aren't quite as overt — no barbarous murders or bloody troops, but they acknowledge the war.
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That really feels like it has a literary source. I didn't find an exact match, but "Great Ruler of the Earth and Skies" comes close:
When angry nations rush to arms,
And rage and noise and tumult reign,
And war resounds its dire alarms,
And slaughter dyes the hostile plain;
Thy sovereign eye looks calmly down,
And marks their course and bounds their power;
Thy law the angry nations own,
And noise and war are heard no more.
That's from a 19th-century edition, so I don't know how early the verse is. More careful searching could probably trace the original publication.
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