It was Tom who paid a poet from Brighton to write the lines for the tombstone, which we all thought were very true and good, beginning - "Alas! Swift flew the fatal lead Which pierced through the young man's head.
Ce fut Tom qui paya un poète de Brighton pour composer l'épitaphe en vers qu'on plaça sur la pierre tombale, épitaphe que nous trouvâmes tous fort vraie et fort bonne et qui commençait ainsi: