"Night Etarnal Seals His Eyes"

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.

In Memory of

John, Son of Will

iam & Susanna

Bourk died July

ye 29th. 1777 aged

14 Months.

When once the short

Liv'd Mortal dies,

A Night Etarnal 

Seals his Eyes.

John Bourk, Newport, RI, 1777