Macmillan's Magazine (1883) volume 47, page 301, has, in an article "Churchyard Poetry", attributed to F. Bayford Harrison:
"...the following, from the cemetery at Chertsey, Surrey, will serve as an example of the extremely natural and unaffected style of some other churchyard poets. The last line is simple to ruggedness :—
The cup was bitter the sting severe To part from those he loved so dear But hoping through Christ to meet them again Though suffering much he did not complain. "
Littell's Living Age (1883) volume 156, pages 632-3, reprints exactly the same text