Tears flow, and cease not, where the good man lies,
Till all who know him follow to the skies.
Tears therefore fall where Chester's ashes sleep;
Him wife, friends, brothers, children, servants, weep;
And justly -- few shall ever him transcend
As husband, parent, brother, master, friend.
More verses by William Cowper
- Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston
- Olney Hymn 37: Temptation
- Longing To Be With Christ
- On An Infant (From The Greek)
- Denner's Old Woman