An Epitaph A Day - October 29

Keeps Death's Spectre Away

ON ORONO.

At Oldtown, Maine, may be seen this epitaph on
Orono, chief of the Penobscots, who died in 1801,
aged 113 years:

Safe lodged within his blanket, here below,
Lie the last relics of old Orono;
Worn down with toil and care, he in a trice
Exchanged his wigwam for a paradise.

Source:

Kippax, John Robert. Churchyard Literature. 1762-190. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. 1877.