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What is written on Frank Memorial Stone?

Here lies the body of FRANK, / Who was all life a child. / He was not known by many; / But they that knew him lov'd him much.

This is the inscription on the Frank Memorial Stone, a granite obelisk located in the churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin Church in the United Kingdom. The stone was erected in memory of Frank Miles, a young man who died in 1855 at the age of 20. Miles was a friend of Christina Rossetti, who wrote the poem "In the Bleak Midwinter" in his memory. The poem includes the lines:

>What can I give him, / Poor as I am? / If I were a shepherd / I would bring a lamb; / If I were a wise man / I would do my part; / Yet what I can I give him, / Give my heart.

The Frank Memorial Stone is a reminder of the short life of a young man who was loved by those who knew him, and of the power of poetry to express grief and loss.

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