by Coleridge · Cluster: Mortality · Grave · Memento Mori
Abstract
A short translated funerary epitaph bidding a departed parent go in joy from the world’s strife to celestial quiet; themes of mortality, grief, faith and consolation.
Connections
Topoi: Memento Mori Themes & Concepts: Mortality, Grief and Loss, Faith Forms & Genres: Elegy, Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Depart in joy from this world’s noise and strife
To the deep quiet of celestial life!
Depart! — Affection’s self reproves the tear
Which falls, O honour’d Parent! on thy bier; —
Yet Nature will be heard, the heart will swell, 5
And the voice tremble with a last Farewell!
1797.
[The Tablet is erected to the Memory of Richard Camplin, who died Jan.
20, 1792.
‘Lætus abi! mundi strepitu curisque remotus;
Lætus abi! cæli quâ vocat alma Quies.
Ipsa fides loquitur lacrymamque incusat inanem,
Quæ cadit in vestros, care Pater, Cineres.
Heu! tantum liceat meritos hos solvere Ritus, 5
Naturæ et tremulâ dicere Voce, Vale!’]