The flower we cherished
Headstone to 13-year-old Jane Eliza Palmer, who died in 1883. The verse on the stone strikes an unusually raw note of grief, in contrast to the usual pieties:-
"When we see our precious darling
That we tended with such care
Quickly taken from our bosom
How our aching hearts despair.
Round her little grave we linger
Till the setting sun is low
Feeling all our hopes have perished
With the flower we cherished so."
St Edmund's churchyard, Southwold, Suffolk
The flower we cherished
Headstone to 13-year-old Jane Eliza Palmer, who died in 1883. The verse on the stone strikes an unusually raw note of grief, in contrast to the usual pieties:-
"When we see our precious darling
That we tended with such care
Quickly taken from our bosom
How our aching hearts despair.
Round her little grave we linger
Till the setting sun is low
Feeling all our hopes have perished
With the flower we cherished so."
St Edmund's churchyard, Southwold, Suffolk