This Newport gravestone has a verse from Catullus, translated by Joseph Addison. Whoever requested it may have encountered the verse in the works of Samuel Johnson.
I came across a good graveyard poem for the seaport towns like Newport and Marblehead: The House-Top Walk by Charles Thompson. (I'd always heard them called Widows' Walks.)
It's not a literary masterpiece, but it is a nice little collection of lines reminding us that "some are asleep in the graveyard there / And some in the wandering sea."
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"some are born to endless night"
I came across a good graveyard poem for the seaport towns like Newport and Marblehead: The House-Top Walk by Charles Thompson. (I'd always heard them called Widows' Walks.)
It's not a literary masterpiece, but it is a nice little collection of lines reminding us that "some are asleep in the graveyard there / And some in the wandering sea."
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