FOOTNOTES
Reading edition
“Life! We’ve been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; ’Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps ’twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time; Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime Bid me good-morning.”
“Delivered from persecution of malice and envy here rests John Wilkinson, Iron Master, in certain hopes of a better state and heavenly mansion, as promulgated by Jesus Christ, in whose Gospel he was a firm believer. His life was spent in action for the benefit of man, and he trusts in some degree to the glory of God.”
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