26 JULY 1884, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Ste,— On reading the lines on "Philip, our late parish clerk," to a friend, he gave me the following from tombstones in the churchyard of Lurgan, in the North of Ireland :—

"No costly robe she wore During her earthly pain, She's gone to rest,

She's with the bleat, Sweet, lovely Mary Jane."

"Here lyes an honest gardener's dast, Who in his calling was so just That his great Lord did him remove From serving here to serve above."

On the middle of a stone in the same churchyard, in tolerably good preservation, is the single word " Tacet." Tradition says it is over the grave of a woman.—I am, Sir, &c., M.