5 September 2013

Highgate Cemetery #6: Henry Crabbe Robinson

'BENEATH THIS STONE
IS INTERRED THE BODY OF
HENRY CRABBE ROBINSON
BORN MAY 15, 1775, DIED FEBRUARY [?], 1867
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FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE OF
GOETHE AND WORDSWORTH, WIELAND
AND COLERIDGE, FLAXMAN AND BLAKE,
CLARKSON AND CHARLES LAMB,
HONOURED AND LOVED THE GREAT
AND NOBLE IN THEIR THOUGHTS
AND CHARACTERS.
HIS WARMTH OF HEART AND
GENIAL SYMPATHY EMBRACED ALL
WHOM HE COULD SERVE,
ALL IN WHOM HE FOUND A RESPONSE
TO HIS OWN HEALTHY TASTES.
HIS RELIGION CORRESPONDED TO HIS LIFE,
SEATED IN THE HEART
IT FOUND EXPRESSION IN THE TRUEST
CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE.'

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