Hadleigh
The charnel mounted on this w )
Sits to be seen in funer )
A matron plain, domestic )
In housewifery a princip )
In care and pains continu )
Not slow, nor gay, nor prodig ) all.
Yet neighbourly and hospitab )
Her children seven yet living )
Her 67th year hence did c )
To rest her body natur )
In hope to rise spiritu )
On little Stephen, a noted fiddler.
Stephen and Time
Are now both even;
Stephen beat Time,
Now Time beats Stephen.
Life is only pain below,
When Christ appears, then up we go.