Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious EpitaphsNorfolk, Horatio Edward
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Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs
Norfolk, Horatio Edward
Epitaphs; Epitaphs -- Great Britain
_Translation_.
My name, my country, what are they to thee?
What, whether high or low, my pedigree?
Perhaps I surpassed by far all other men,
Perhaps I fell below them all, what then?
Suffice it, stranger, that thou seest a tomb,
Its use thou knowest; it hides—“no matter whom.”
CAMBRIDGE.
Here lies interred, beneath this stone,
The bones of a true hearty one,
Who lived well and died better,
And sings in Heaven Glory for ever.
ELY.
In the Cathedral is the following numerical curiosity:—
Human Redemption.
590 x 590 x 590
Born • Sara • Watts
Died
600 x 600 x 600
30 x 00 x 33
Aged
y 30 x 00 x 33
m 3 x d 31 -- 3
h 3 x 3 x 3 x 12
Nations make fun of his
Commands.
S. M. E.
Judgments begun on Earth.
In memory of
James Fountain,
Died August 21, 1767,
Aged 60 years.
* * * * *
Philippa Brown, died November 22nd, 1738, aged 63.
Here I lie, without the door,
The church is full, ’twill hold no more;
Here I lye, the less I pay,
And still I lie as warm as they.
When thou art dead, let this thy comfort be,
That all the world by turn, must follow thee.
* * * * *
On Luke Simon, died May 25, 1784, aged 63.
Man’s life’s a snare, a labyrinth of woe,
Which mortal men are doomed to struggle this;
To-day he’s great, to-morrow he’s undone,
And thus with hope and fear he travels on:
Till some disease, or else old age,
Calls us poor mortals trembling off the stage.
Cheshire.
Copied from the tombstone of Mr. Samuel Johnson, commonly called Maggoty
Johnson, who was interred in a plantation or wood, belonging to the Earl
of Harrington, in Gawsworth, near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Under this stone
Rest the remains of Mr. Samuel Johnson, afterwards ennobled with the
grander title of Lord Flame. Who, after having been in his life
distinct from other men by the eccentricities of his genius, chose to
retain the same character after his death, and was, at his own
desire, buried here, May 5th, 1773, aged 82 yrs.
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