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It came up late in the Spring and bloomed at harvest time, the reaper wept as he gathered the shorn flower and bound it with the ripened grain in the sheaf of the eternal, B.B. (Ben Brierley).

In loving memory of Annie, Only child of Ben & Esther Brierley of Collyhurst who died June 13th 1875 aged 18 years & 7 months.