{"id":7094,"date":"2018-07-16T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7094"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:51:59","slug":"gravestone-salem-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2018\/07\/gravestone-salem-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravestone, Salem, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"

In Salem, Massachusetts, yesterday, we spent a half an hour wandering around the old burying ground. There are some seventeenth and eighteenth century stones there, and I could have spent a couple of hours looking at them. While I’m most interested in the carving, the inscription on one of the stones caught my attention:<\/p>\n

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In Memory of
\nMiss SALLY GRANT,
\ndaughter of Cap. SAMUEL
\n& Mrs. ELIZABETH GRANT,
\nwho died Sept. 16th 1789:
\nin the 26th year of her age.<\/p>\n

I long[,] she faintly cries[,] to lose my breath
\nAnd gently sink into th’embrace of death
\nAdiue [sic] vain World[,] a long adiue[,] I go
\nWhere joys that have no bound forever flow.<\/p>\n

I have been unable to find a source for the short verse on this gravestone. It sounds like it might be a verse from a late eighteenth century spiritual song or hymn, perhaps remembered not quite accurately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Salem, Massachusetts, yesterday, we spent a half an hour wandering around the old burying ground. There are some seventeenth and eighteenth century stones there, and I could have spent a couple of hours looking at them. While I’m most interested in the carving, the inscription on one of the stones caught my attention: In … Continue reading “Gravestone, Salem, Mass.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","tag-gravestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7096,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions\/7096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}