North Street, Newry, County Down

North Street, Newry, County Down
North Street, Newry, County Down

Saturday, 19 April 2014

James Stanislaus Blake [c.1817-1873] [2]

James Blake lived in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. He enjoyed writing poetry and had an unusual sense of humour.


Epitaph,
Written over a case of Port and Sherry,
buried in my garden at Ballinamona.

They who thro' life were held most dear,
Untouched by death, lie buried here;
Unlike the rest of mortals, they
Despise the fate of vulgar clay:
For when their sepulchre is burst,
No eye shall view them with disgust,
And when they rise again to light
Their ghosts, no sinners shall affright;
But even the sexton will have sport;
For one is Sherry, and the other Port.

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