Westmoreland
Ravenstonedale
Here lies a Wife,
Mary Metcalf,
Where I was born, or when,
It matters not,—
To whom related, or
By whom begot.
John Robinson Hunter,
Aged 30.
He lived; and died
Unplaced, unpensioned—
No man’s heir
Or slave.
“Can the inhabitants of Ravenstonedale look at either of these monuments without blushing? Can the freeholders of that parish look at the latter, and not consider it prophetically as the voice of one speaking from the dead?”