Shropshire
Shrewsbury
On an Old Maid.
Here lies the body of Martha Dias,
Who was always uneasy, and not over pious;
She lived to the age of threescore and ten,
And gave that to the worms she refused to the men.
On a Watchmaker.
Thy movements, Isaac, kept in play,
Thy wheels of life felt no decay
For fifty years at least;
Till, by some sudden, secret stroke,
The balance or the mainspring broke,
And all the movements ceas’d.