IN MEMORIAM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXI, Issue 13370, 24 February 1904, Page 1

IN MEMORIAM.

EMPSOK. In loving memory of our dear mother, Elizabeth Frances' E'mpsou, who died Feb. 21, 1897. Gone, but not. forgotten. . AH' you who ‘have a- mother, . : Love her while you may, : She will not-always linger near, Too soon slip will pass away. Inserted by her lovi-rg daughters, Annie and ?vy. TIMS.—In sad and loving remembrance of our eldest and dearly .beloved son, Herbert Eli, sergeant -Seventh Contingent, killed in -'action, at 'Bothasberg, .South Africa, Fob. £1) 1902; aged twenty-two years. So loved so meurneu. If we bad known when last we -lightly parted, .That during life our hands would clasp no mere, , How different would have been our solemn parting, , . . ... ■ From that which only saw a brief aclien; How would the tears of mutual , sorrow starting, , - - Have dimmed eacn fleeting moment t.;ui. we knew. . " Inserted by 1 his Itmng parents, brothers and •isters. '