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Memorial to Richard Earle
Sir Richard Earle. 4th Baronet Stragglethorpe, died unmarried in 1697 aged 24.
"Stay, reader and observe deaths partial doom
A spreading virtue in a narrow tomb,
A generous mind mingled with common dust;
Like burnished steel covered and left in rust.
Dark in the earth he lies, in whom did shine
All the divided merits of his line,
The lustre of his name seems faded here,
No fairer star in all that fruitful sphere.
In piety and parts extremely bright;
Clear was his youth, and filled with crowning light
A morn that promised much yet saw no noon
None ever rose so fast and set so soon,
All lines of worth were centred here in one,
Yet see, he lies in shades, whose life had none,
But while the mother, this sad structure rears,
A double dissolution there appears;
He into dust dissolves, she into tears."
"Stay, reader and observe deaths partial doom
A spreading virtue in a narrow tomb,
A generous mind mingled with common dust;
Like burnished steel covered and left in rust.
Dark in the earth he lies, in whom did shine
All the divided merits of his line,
The lustre of his name seems faded here,
No fairer star in all that fruitful sphere.
In piety and parts extremely bright;
Clear was his youth, and filled with crowning light
A morn that promised much yet saw no noon
None ever rose so fast and set so soon,
All lines of worth were centred here in one,
Yet see, he lies in shades, whose life had none,
But while the mother, this sad structure rears,
A double dissolution there appears;
He into dust dissolves, she into tears."
Created: Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Updated: Fri, 9 Feb 2024
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