and

    clean

   soul and may i soon go to her.

   "William Joy Horne, Carpenter."

   On a dyer:

     "He died to live and lived to dye."

   On Mrs. Lee and her son:

   At Edinburgh:

   One John Round was lost at sea, and in the grave-yard of his native place a stone was erected with the following couplet inscribed thereon:

   In an old church-yard in Ireland:

     "Here lies John Highley whose father and mother were drownded on their passage to America. Had they lived they would have been buried here."

   In a church-yard in Ohio:

   From a tombstone in Cornwall, England:

   On Eliza Newman:

   On a drummer, in an English church-yard:

   On a stone near Appomattox Court-house, Virginia:

     "Robert C Wright was born June 26th 1772 Died July 2. 1815 by the blood thrusty hand of John Sweeny Sr Who was massacred with the Nife then a London Gun discharge a ball penetrate the Heart that give the immortal wound."

   At Middletown, Connecticut, is the following:

   The controlling power of rhyme is well illustrated in the subjoined, from a tombstone in Manchester:

   Another instance of how rhyming difficulties may be overcome is as 

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