THE CHURCHYARD LYRIST. CONSISTING OF FIVE HUNDRED ORIGINAL INSCRIPTIONS To commemorate the Dead, With a suitable Selection of appropriate Texts of Scripture. "For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."-Gen. iii. 19. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HOULSTON AND SON, AND AT WELLINGTON, SALOP. - 1832. PREFACE. THE object of the present Volume is to offer to the Public a greater variety of original epitaphs than has hitherto appeared, the want of such variety having generally led to the repetition of common-place and inapplicable inscriptions. The sacred Scriptures will ever be the most suitable source of inscriptions for the grave, but the affections of human beings continually call for a more definite |