Gravestones At Oxwich Bay

ISSUE: Summer 2001

St. Iltyd’s Church
Gower, Wales

“When the archangel’s trump shall sound
And souls to bodies joined,
Millions will wish their lives below
Had been so short as thine.”

Sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth,
daughter of Samuel & Elizabeth Ace,
who died August 17^th 1829
aged ten months

    Also of Elizabeth
  daughter of the above
who died December 11^th 1847
    aged 17 years

II.

Samuel Ace 72, died 1876
“Thy will be done”

      Elizabeth,
  wife of the above named
     died 1879, age 74
  ”All her sorrow left behind
And earth exchanged for heaven.”

W. D. Ehrhart

W. D. Ehrhart, a former Marine sergeant and veteran of the Vietnam War, holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Wales, where he did his dissertation on American poetry of the Korean War. He is author of 14 books of prose and poetry, and editor or coeditor of four anthologies, and has been publishing regularly in VQR since 1980. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia, and teaches English and history at the Haverford School.

Issue: Summer 2001 Volume 77 # 3

Published: December 12, 2003

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