O Passing Stranger
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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
Hubert Henry Heddle
1885
1885
There are three children listed on this memorial, Hubert, 7 months, Oscar, Aged 11 Months, and Alice Aged 7 Years.
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
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.
West Terrace Cemetery
Greater Metro Adelaide- South Australia
1880’s
Baby (0 to 12 months)
A tragic tale. Beautiful, though the full poem is slightly grim.
Poem, Beautiful, Deep Loss, Unique, Love