Epitaphs
Epitaphs.
I came across an epitaph, so I thought maybe we can each of us add 10.
h1.
The author August Strindberg died in May, 1912.
His modest grave with just a wooden cross bears the Latin inscription:
O Crux Ave Spes Unica!
(O Cross, Be Greeted, Our Only Hope)
n1.
Poetess Emily Dickinson, died 1886. Buried in West Cemetery - Amherst, Massachusetts. Her epitaph reads:
Called Back
(Her last words were: Let us go in; the fog is rising.)
h2.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts.
The passive master lent his hand,
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
n2.
William Butler Yeats
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
h3.
n3.
Edgar Allan Poe
Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery,
Baltimore, Maryland
Quoth the Raven nevermore.
h4.Francis Albert Sinatra
Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California
The Best is Yet to Come
n4.
Dean Martin
Westwood Memorial Park,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
h5.
Soraya
St. Peter's Cemetery,
London, Ontario, Canada
The smiles that won
The tints that glowed
Tells of days in goodness spent.
A mind at peace with all below
A heart where love was innocent.
n5.
Highgate Cemetery
London, England
Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to
change it.
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