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“My Life’s my dying day, wherein I still Am making, alter and correct my Will.” Francis Quarles. “Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.” Christina G. Rossetti. “Of Carthage wall I was a stone O’h Mortals Read with Pity Time consumes all it spareth none Man, Mountain, Town nor City. Therefore O’h Mortals now bethink You where unto you must, Since now such Stately Buildings Lie Buried in the dust. Thomas Hughes, 1663.” The Carthage Stone, S. Dunstan’s Church, Stepney.