And DUST TO DUST concludes her noblest song!"

The author of these lines is not without his 'Hic jacet.' By the
good sense of his son it contains none of that praise which no
marble can make the bad or the foolish merit; which, without the
direction of stone or a turf, will find its way, sooner or later, to
the deserving.

M. S.
Optimi parentis
EDWARDI YOUNG, LL.D.
Hujus Ecclesiae rect. et Elizabethae faem. praenob
Conjugis ejus amantissimae
Pio et gratissimo animo hoc marmor posuit
F. Y.
Filius superstes.

Is it not strange that the author of the "Night Thoughts" has
inscribed no monument to the memory of his lamented wife? Yet what
marble will endure as long as the poems?

Such, my good friend, is the account which I have been able to
collect of the great Young. That it may be long before anything
like what I have just transcribed be necessary for you, is the
sincere wish of,
Dear Sir, your greatly obliged Friend,
HERBERT CROFT, Jun.
Lincoln's Inn, Sept., 1780.

P.S.--This account of Young was seen by you in manuscript, you know,