Subject: Epitaphs (Page 7)

Here, reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate a useful moral teaches; The hole in which my body lies Would not contain one half my speeches

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Here lies Lotta Dust.

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At length a grave spots for him provided, where all through him so many of us died did.

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For a good time, dig.

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Sacred to Wm Collis boat-steerer of the ship St George of New Bedford, who by the will of Almighty God was killed by a whale off this Island

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Here lies Dr Keene, the good Bishop of Chester, who eat up a fat goose, but could not digest her.

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Gone, but not forgiven

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Was suddenly killed at early dawn, July 4th, 1842, by the explosion of a small canon, aged 15 years

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Brigham Young – born on this spot 1801 – a man of much courage and superb equipment.

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Learn the living from the dead, how easy breaks life's tender thread

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To follow you I am not content, How do I know Which way you went.

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If Heaven be pleased when sinners cease to sin, if Hell be pleased when sinners enter in, if Earth be pleased when ridded of a knave, then all are pleased for Coleman’s in his grave.

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Here I at length repose, My spirit now at aise is; With the tips of my toes And the point of my nose Turned up to the roots of the daisies.

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Farewell my young companions all. From death's arrest no age is free. Remember this, a warning call. Prepare to follow after me.

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Here beneath this stone we lie, back to back my wife and I, And when the angels trump shall trill, If she gets up then I'll lie still!

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He is not here – But only his pod; He shelled out his peas – And went to his God.

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Here Delia's buried at fourscore; When young, a lewd rapacious Whore, Vain and expensive; but when old, A pious, sordid, drunken Scold.

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Beneath this stone lies Lamb asleep, who died a Lamb who lived a sheep. Many a lamb and sheep he slaughtered but cruel Death the scene has altered.

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My wife lies here. All my tears cannot bring her back, Therefore, I weep.

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I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

(1900 – 1978) American actress & novelist
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Here lies Dave Jordan – His last words were a shame… 'There's a light at the end of the tunnel'… Unfortunately it was a train

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