O Passing Stranger
Listing Details
Transcript
O passing stranger, call this not
A place of fear and gloom,
I love to linger o'er the spot
It is my childrens tomb
A place of fear and gloom,
I love to linger o'er the spot
It is my childrens tomb
Memorial Name
Hubert Henry Heddle
Year of Birth
1885
Year of Death
1885
Other details on the memorial
There are three children listed on this memorial, Hubert, 7 months, Oscar, Aged 11 Months, and Alice Aged 7 Years.
Research
This epitaph is both sad and yet filled with some compasion.
It appears to either be from a poem or longer epitaph, found in a book (the London and Paris Obsever) and is the first verse:
O passing Stranger! call this not
A place of fear and gloom,
I love to linger o'er the spot-
It is my baby's tomb
It appears to either be from a poem or longer epitaph, found in a book (the London and Paris Obsever) and is the first verse:
O passing Stranger! call this not
A place of fear and gloom,
I love to linger o'er the spot-
It is my baby's tomb
References
The full poem
O passing Stranger! call this not
A place of fear and gloom,
I love to linger o'er the spot-
It is my baby's tomb
Here morning sunbreams brightly glow,
And here the moonbeam shines,
Whilse all unconsciously below
My slumbering babe reclines.
His little waxen rosy face
I know will soon decay;
And every charm and every grace
Will moulder fast away;
But when the sun and moon shall fade,
My baby shall arise,
In brighter beams than theirs, array's
And reign above the skies.
O passing Stranger! call this not
A place of fear and gloom,
I love to linger o'er the spot-
It is my baby's tomb
Here morning sunbreams brightly glow,
And here the moonbeam shines,
Whilse all unconsciously below
My slumbering babe reclines.
His little waxen rosy face
I know will soon decay;
And every charm and every grace
Will moulder fast away;
But when the sun and moon shall fade,
My baby shall arise,
In brighter beams than theirs, array's
And reign above the skies.
Cemetery
West Terrace Cemetery
Location
Greater Metro Adelaide- South Australia
Year of Memorial
1880’s
Age Range
Baby (0 to 12 months)
Author Comments
A tragic tale. Beautiful, though the full poem is slightly grim.
General
Poem, Beautiful, Deep Loss, Unique, Love