128 RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES. 
How eloquent the monumental stone, 
Where blooming, modest Virtues, prostrate lie ! 
Where pure Religion from her hallow’d Throne, 
Tells man ‘‘ it is an awful thing to Die.” 
Is Happiness thy Aim? Or Death thy Fear ? 
Learn how their Path with Glory may be trod, 
From the lamented Youth who slumbers here, 
Who gave the Flower of his Days to God. 
The above is on a tombstone in the south-west part of the 
churchyard, near the path. At the east end of the church, “ In 
memory of Sarah Cooper,” is a stone with the following :— 
In sure and steadfast hope to rise, 
And claim her mansion in the skies, 
A Christian here her flesh laid down, 
The cross exchanging for a crown. 
Meet for the fellowship above 
She heard the call, Arise my love: 
I come, her dying looks replied, 
And lamb like as her Lord she died. 
I also copied the inscription on the tomb of Catherine 
Mompesson :— 
CATHERINA VXOR 
GVLIELMI MOMPESSON 
HVJUS ECCLESL# RECTS, 
FILIA RADVLPHI CARR, 
NVPER DE COCKEN IN 
COMITATV DVNELMENSIS 
ARMIGERI : 
SEPVLTA VICESSIMO 
QVINTO DIE MENSIS AVGTI. 
ANO. DNI. 1666. 
Besides this, at the west end of the tomb is an hour-glass with 
wings and the words Cavefe nescitis horam ; and at the east end a 
death’s head with the motto, Mors mihi lacrum. ‘The following 
inscription is from a lichen-stained stone placed by the east wall 
