OUR DEAR FATHER
ROBERT KIRKWOOD
REST IN PEACE
ALSO OUR DARLING MOTHER
HARRIET KIRKWOOD
ASLEEP IN JESUS
DEAREST PARENTS, THOU HAS LEFT US.
WE THY LOSS MOST DEEPLY FEEL;
BUT 'TIS GOD WHO HAS BEREFT US,
HE CAN ALL OUR SORROWS HEAL.
O SILENT GRAVE TO THEE WE TRUST.
THIS PRECIOUS PART OF EARTHLY DUST.
GUARD IT SAFELY, SACRED TOMB,
TILL WE THEIR CHILDREN ASK FOR ROOM.
ERECTED BY THEIR CHILDREN.