Note 7 — Chapter I
Reading edition
"My Epitaph."
"Below lies one whose name was traced in sand— He died, not knowing what it was to live; Died while the first sweet consciousness of manhood And maiden thought electrified his soul: Faint beatings in the calyx of the rose. Bewildered reader, pass without a sigh In a proud sorrow! There is life with God, In other Kingdom of a sweeter air; In Eden every flower is blown. Amen."
David Gray ("A Poet's Sketch-book," R. Buchanan, p. 81.)