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VERSES INSCRIBED ON THE TOMBSTONE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB MINNIKIN,
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VERSES INSCRIBED ON THE TOMBSTONE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB MINNIKIN,
MASTER OF THE BRIG SYRIA, OF SUNDERLAND, WHO WAS DROWNED FROM THE WRECK OF THAT VESSEL IN THE GREAT STORM OF NOV. 13, 1840.
Stop, stranger, stop! in silence treadAmidst the dwellings of the dead.
This stone records the second grave
Of one, first buried in the wave;
This sod enshrouds the gallant form
Of him who perish'd in the storm:
A man of virtue, honour, trust,
Reposes here, in hallow'd dust.
Then think, and weep, for, in a breath
He sunk within the jaws of death;
And haven'd here his body lies,
His spirit safe beyond the skies.
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