I’m much more interested in epitaphs than I used to be, and one of the things I always look for is whether an epitaph is a quote from somewhere else – a surprising number of them are. This one does in fact seem to be a prayer specific to the Coloneses’. I could not find any poem or hymn that this seems to come from.
A Grave Concern: Merely a prayer
October 15, 2011 by Ashley
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Very simple, very familiar, said many millions of times, a Catholic prayer for the deceased, from the the beginning (the introit, entrance hymn) of the Requiem Mass:
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Te decet hymnus Deus, in Sion,
et tibi reddetur votum in Ierusalem.
Exaudi orationem meam;
ad te omnis caro veniet.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
A hymn becomes you, O God, in Zion,
and to you shall a vow be repaid in Jerusalem.
Hear my prayer;
to you shall all flesh come.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
Thank you! Normally when I search for something like that online, I am able to find it by typing in enough of the first line.