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or thus

are Truth & Knowledge Love & Pity thine
Have Charity^s soft Fires thy Soul refin'd
Then rest thy wandring Step beneath this Shrine
& bless these reliques of a kindred Mind

or if the you think the reliques of a Mind not an allowable Expression you may easily change it to

For once these reliques held a kindred Mind

But I beg you will always correct yr own Verses yrself for nobody can do it so well – & Heaven bless those good Souls say I who have the Patience to write an Epitaph for it is a Task enough to make one frantic — there is nothing so difficult -

I must now scold you for letting