In Memory

              Joseph Burdakin, of East Cambridge, Died Nov. 7, 1891, aged 78 years and nine months.

                                           The following lines are written by request.

When restless youth gropes here and there,

And middle age takes up the care,

          Old age finds rest;

When usefulness of ours is o’er,

And we pine for that better shore,

          Release is best.

When we have ever faithful been,

And lived beloved by other men,

          God says: “Well done”.

When our weak flesh, transformed to clay,

By loving friends is laid away,

          Life is begun.

Nov. 11, ‘91

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Camb. Press