24 JUNE 1899, Page 32

A BEAUTIFUL EPITAPH.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—As a specimen of the lapidary style the following epitaph, composed by the late Bishop Wordsworth, of St. Andrews, for his wife's grave in Buxted churchyard, near Mayfield, Sussex, may be thought worthy of publication in the Spectator. It was said by the late Lord Derby to be " untranslatable," but I have made an attempt to give an English version of it

EPITAPH.

"I, minium dilecta, vocal Deus, I bones nostrse Pars animas I alcerens altera dime sequl I"

Go, loved too much I God calls thee, go I Ity soul's best part, ascend on high I Thou other part left here in woe, Learn thou to follow when I die.