Jonathan Battishill
 (1738 - 1801)

Here rests his head
 (S.A.B.)
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A setting of the epitaph from Gray's Elegy, pub. c.1775.
Lyrics: Thomas Gray

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown;
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Large was his bounty and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send.
He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
He gained from Heaven, 'twas all he wished, a friend.

No further seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.