Subject: Epitaphs (Page 12)

Here lieth the body of my lovely dear wife Anne, who plays the poker machines whenever she can.

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Ruth and Johnny, Side by side, Went out for an auto ride, They hit a bump. Ruth hit a tree, And John kept going – Ruthlessly.

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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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I lodged have in many a town and travelled many a year. Till age and death have brought me down, to my last lodging here.

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None of us ever voted for Roosevelt or Truman

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She did what she could. Not Goodbye, but au revoir. In loving memory of My Dear Wife Annie Edith Faithfull (1877–1954)

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My father and mother were both insane – I inherited the terrible stain. – My grandfather, grandmother, aunts and uncles – Were lunatics all, and yet died of carbuncles.

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Paul Lennis Swank – Here under the dung of cows and sheep, lies an old highclimber fast asleep. His trees all topped and his lines all hung. They say the old rascal died full of rum.

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Returned – Unopened

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Here lies interred Priscilla Bird, who sang on earth till sixty two. Now up on high above the sky, no doubt she sings like sixty too.

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Hedemark (1949-2001) – See You Soon

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Whether sailor or not, for a moment avast, poor Tom's mizzen topsail is laid to the mast; he'll never turn out, or more heave the lead; he's now all aback, nor will sails shoot ahead. He ever was brisk, and tho' now gone to wreck. When he hears the last whistle, he'll jump upon deck.

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Wherever you be, let your wind go free. For holding it in, was the killing of me.

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They were two living sisters, who in this dust do lie. The very day Annie was buried Elizabeth did die.

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I had a lover's quarrel with the world

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Here lies a man who while he lived was happy as a linnet. He always lied while on the earth and now he's lying in it.

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18 years a maiden, 1 year a wife, 1 day a mother, then I lost my life.

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A zealous locksmith died of late, and did not enter Heaven’s gate. But stood without and would not knock , because he meant to pick the lock.

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Here lies one John Witherbee, – A Boston gallant chap was he. – God had no use for such as he, – The devil rejected Witherbee.

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Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.

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Here lies an Atheist. All dressed up and no place to go.

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