A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD

Here Lyes the Body of

Iohn Jones the Son of

Iohn Jones Who Departed

This Life December the

1768 Aged 4 Years & 4 Months & 2 Days

Here, where enormous shadows creep,

He casts his childish shadow too:

How small he seems, beneath the steep

Great walls; his tender days, so few,

Lovingly numbered, every one —

John Jones, John Jones's little son.

O sunlight on the Lightning's wings!

Yet though our buildings skyward climb

Our heartbreaks are but little things

In the equality of Time.

The sum of life, for all men's stones:

He was John Jones, son of John Jones.