Sir Philip George Stuart Homan

From Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archeaological Society, Vol. 3, circa 1894: http://snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/105230/105230.pdf. The following is a description of a monument to Sir William Homan's son, Philip Homan, who drowned at sea in 1821, and the replication of the poem that Sir William Homan wrote and had engraved on the monument.

The tourist who visits Lismore should not fail to visit Temple Declan, the ruined site of the ancient church built there by St. Declan, on the left-hand side of the now disused road which branches off at the Round Hill, and leads to Drumroe. He will find there the traces of a Kizzeen or churchyard for strangers, unbaptised children, etc., and within the enclosed fence he will behold a huge triangular-shaped monument, which was erected in 1821 for Sir Philip E. S. Homan, Bart., who then lived at Drumroe House. The following inscription, now almost undecipherable, was copied by the ‘present writer in August, 1893, and is said to have been composed by the baronet [Sir William Homan] when,plunged in grief for the loss of his son, who was drowned at sea. It is carved on a marble slab of a cruciform shape, and there are steps ascending to the interior of this remarkable cenotaph, on which the legend appears :- 1821. Death dwells here in silence./ No tombs record the grief of parents./ Here are no monuments to parents themselves/ Nothing to proclaim the vanity of grieving/ For those whom we so soon must follow./ Sunt breves mundi rosae/ Sunt fugitivae flores/ Frondes veluti annosae/ Sunt labiles honores./ Velocissimo cursu/ Fluun t anni/ Sicut celeres venti/ Fugiunt, evolant, evanescunt./ Nil durat aeternum sub coelo,/ Rapit omnia rigida sors,/ Implacabili funesto telo/ Ferit omnia livida mors.