What was missing word in the last line of epitaph?

In "Stranger, approach this spot with gravity / Here lies the tenant of eternity. / Not long I tarried on life's busy stage, / Cut off and withered in my verdant age. / Now, reader, tell, what was my deadly fate. / In one short word my story’s told; _____," The missing word, which completes the epitaph, is "Consumption." "Consumption" here refers to the tuberculosis, a potentially fatal disease in the past.