Sacred to the Memory of the Surviving Shipmates

Three marble tablets with black borders masoned into wall on either side the pulpit. Three of them ran something like the following, but i do not pretend to quote. Sacred to the memory of john talbot, who, at the age of 18, was lost overboard near the isle of desolation off patagonia november first 18 36. This tablet is erected to his memory by his sister. It needs scarcely be told with what feelings, on the eve of a nantuck voyage, i regarded those marble tablets. O ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass, who standing among flowers, can say, here here lies my beloved? What bitter blanks in