Lancaster, Mass - David Steuart Robertson, Musings from the Cemetery Mailbag Scot

Musings from the Cemetery: by Patsy Hennessy

Tombstone
In Memory of David Steuart Robertson
Second son of the late John Robertson, Esq. of Foveran House, Aberdeenshire.
Born in Scotland, Educated at Rugby in England,
And at Glessen in Germany, in which country as well as in Sicily,
he spent several years.
At the age of twenty-three He came to America.
Having, after various experiences of the Old World,
Acquired an Ardent love for the New.
He settled in this town of Lancaster
And became a citizen of the United States.
Deceased on the twenty first of July A. D. MDCCCXLIX.
In the thirtieth year of his age.
Here Steuart sleeps and should some brother Scot
Wander this way, and pause upon the spot,
He need not ask, now life's poor show is o'er.
What arms he carried, or what plaid he wore;
So small the value of illustrious birth,
Brought to this solemn, last assay of earth:
Ye, unreproved, his epitaph may say,
A royal soul was wrapt in Steuart's clay,
And generous actions consecrate his mound
More than all titles, though of kingly sound.

Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

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