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This lovely bud so young so fair
Called home by early doom
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In paradise would bloom.(1)

Alas sweet youth not all your charms,
Could save you from deaths icy arms.(2)

Oh take these tears mortalitys relief,
And till we spare our joys forgive our grief,
These little relics, a stone, a verse receive,
Tis all a father, all a friend can give.(3)

Alas sweet youth not all your charms,
Could save you from deaths icy arms.(2)

Behold and see as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so must you be
Prepare for Death and follow me.(4)

Alas sweet youth not all your charms,
Could save you from deaths icy arms.(2)

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(1) ELIZA C, daughter of Benjamin & Polly Ann Stebbins, died Jan 25, 1845, aged 1 ye 1 m & 19 ds.

(2) POLLY, daughter of Joel & Mabel Baldwin, died Jan 11, 1813, aged 14.

(3) Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM BOSTWICK, son of Benjamin & Esther Bostwick, who died Aug 15th, 1797, aged 30 years.

(4) Here lies the body of RUFUS PALMER, who Departed this life November 24, A D 1772, in the 11 year of his Age.