Comments on: Tombstone Tuesday: How Many Tears Have Bathed Thy Honoured Bier http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/tombstone-tuesday-how-many-tears-have-bathed-thy-honoured-bier/ Discovering surprises, mysteries and brick walls!! Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rootsresearcher http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/tombstone-tuesday-how-many-tears-have-bathed-thy-honoured-bier/#comment-253 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:11:18 +0000 http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/?p=702#comment-253 Hallo MarDi, Thanks for popping over to my blog and for your comment. I wasn’t thinking about the author who wrote the poem, and now in view of what you have said I am wondering if the author was a family member? Friend? rather than maybe verses the vicar kept for tombstones for the bereaved if they wanted something on the stone. And what you say makes sense. I thought the whole verse was quite different from the types of verse I have seen on tombstones.

Hope you’re having a good week!

Kind regards,

Christine (rootsresearcher)

]]> By: MarDi http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/tombstone-tuesday-how-many-tears-have-bathed-thy-honoured-bier/#comment-251 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:36:48 +0000 http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/?p=702#comment-251 What a sad but very touching poem. The way I read it, the author is saying that others may find consolation but he/she is beyond consolation?

“Whilst solitary friendship sighs alone” could be the author stating the fact that he is now alone in the friendship that Michael was the other half of?

It’s a really beautiful memorial, thank you for sharing. :)

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