In the story "Young Goodman Brown," what is carved on Brown's tombstone when he dies?

The
depressing last lines of 's "" (1835) reveal that the titular character's grave held
no "hopeful verse": "they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his
dying hour was gloom." This "hopeful verse" is most likely a Bible verse, given
the story's Puritan frame. Why, however, did Hawthorne add this ostensibly trivial
detail?

In this short tale, Young Goodman Brown, a newly married gentleman
from Salem village, leaves his wife Faith one night and goes into the nearby woods. He
encounters some of the fellow townsfolk committing acts of devil-worship and thinks he hears the
voice of his wife. When Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem, he is trembling, uncertain of
whether what he saw in the forest was real or a dream, and the rest of his days are somber and
bleak.

What are we to make of this? Given the connection between Salem
village and the infamous Salem Witch Trials, and the Devil's reference to Young Goodman Brown's
father burning Native American villages, the story seems to be about human moral hypocrisy. Just
as the characters in the story worship God by day but the devil by night, the early Puritans
committed atrocious crimes in the name of religion. "Young Goodman Brown" then
establishes the dual capacity of the human heart to simultaneously act in good and evil
ways.

How does this relate to the unmarked grave then? Those who buried Young
Goodman Brown didn't care to add a hopeful Christian message to his grave. With this, Hawthorne
suggests that humanity, due to our dual nature, isn't worthy of a hopeful verse as well. A bit
heavy, huh?