Monumental Inscriptions in Ashbourn Church, Derbyshire/Hill Boothby
BY MISS SEWARD,
OF LITCHFIELD.
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
HILL BOOTHBY,
ONLY DAUGHTER OF
Brooke Boothby and Elizabeth Fitzherbert
HIS WIFE,
Born October 27th, 1708. Died January 16th, 1756.
Could Beauty, Learning, Talents, Virtue, save
From the dark confines of th'insatiate grave;
This frail memorial had not ask'd a tear,
O'er Hill's cold ashes, sadly mouldering here:
Friendship's chaste flame, her ardent bosom fired,
And bright Religion all her Soul inspired:
Her Soul, too heavenly for an house of clay,
Soon wore its earth-built Mansion to decay;
In the last struggles of departing breath,
She saw her Saviour gild the bed of Death,
Heard his mild accents, tun'd to peace and love,
Breathe a blest welcome, to the Realms above;
To those bright Regions, that celestial shore,
Where friends, long lost, shall meet, to part no more.
"Blest Lord I come! my hopes have not been vain,"
Upon her lifeless cheek, extatic smiles remain.
FINIS.
PARKES, PRINTER and AUCTIONEER, ASHBOURN.