e the
composition of Barry Cornwall and Walter Savage Landor. Upon the two
tablets placed over her tomb, are inscribed the following tributary
lines:--

"In Memory of Marguerite Countess of Blessington, who died
on the 4th of June, 1849. In her lifetime she was loved and
admired for her many graceful writings, her gentle manners,
her kind and generous heart. Men famous for art and science,
in distant lands, sought her friendship; and the historians
and scholars, the poets, and wits, and painters of her own
country, found an unfailing welcome in her ever hospitable
home. She gave cheerfully, to all who were in need, help and
sympathy, and useful counsel; and she died lamented by many
friends. They who loved her best in life, and now lament her
most, have reared this tributary marble over her place of
rest. BARRY CORNWALL."

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"Infra sepultum est
Id omne quod sepeliri potest,
Mulieris quondam pulcherrimae.
Ingenium suum summo studio coluit,
Aliorum pari adjuvit.
Benefacta sua celare novit, ingenium non ita.
Erga omnes erat larga bonitate,
Peregrinis eleganter hospitalis.
Venit Lutetiam Parisiorum Aprili mense,
Quarto Junii die supremum suum obiit."

"WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR."

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_Her_ last resting-place will not be neglected. The eye of faithful
affection watches over it as vigilantly as though the dust that sleeps
within were conscious of his care. But lately a sentiment of exquisite
tenderness suggested the addition of its most touching and appropriate
embellishment. A gentleman in the County Tipperary[5] had been
commissioned to send over to Chambourcy a root of ivy from Lady
Blessington's birthplace to plant near her grave. He succeeded in
obtaining an off-shoot from the parent stem that grows over the house
in which she was born. It has been transplanted to the foot of the
railing that surrounds her monument--it has taken root and spread--and
thus the same ivy that sheltered her cradle will overshadow her tomb!

[Footnote 4: The Egyptian Mahommedans believe that for some time
after death the body is conscious of its actual state, and of what is
passing immediately around it. In this persuasion, mothers will remain
days and nights near the graves of their recently buried children, _in
order that they may not feel terrified at being left alone._]

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