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I laid my wife
Beneath this stone
For her repose
And for my own
- Gravestone in Ottawa, Canada
He slept beneath the moon
He basked beneath the sun;
He lived a life of going-to-do,
And died with nothing done.
- James Albery's epitaph for himself
Here lies a little ugly nauseous elf
Who judging only from it's wretched self
Feebly attempted, petulant and vain
The "Origin of Evil" to explain
- On Soame Jenyns
Here lies the body of Richard Hind
Who was neither ingenious, sober or kind
- Anonymous
If heaven be pleased when sinners cease to sin
If hell be pleased when souls are damned therein
If earth be pleased when it's rid of a knave
Then all are pleased for Coleman's in his grave
- Anonymous
Here lies the mother of children seven
Four on earth and three in heaven
The three in heaven preferring rather
To die with mother than live with father
- Gravestone in Birmingham, England
Here lies John Tyrwitt
A learned divine
He died in a fit
Through drinking port wine
- Graveyard in Malta
O reader behold the philospoher's grave
He was born quite a fool but dies quite a knave
-On Sir Joshua Reynolds
Here lies my wife
Here lies she
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
- Gravestone in Leeds, England
Here lies that peerless paper peer Lord Peter
Who broke the laws of God and man and meter
- Anon. on Lord Robertson
Here Holy Willie's sair worn clay
Takes up his last abode
His soul has taken some other way
I fear the left hand road
- Robert Burns
Here lie Willie Michie's bones
O Satan, when you take him
Give him some schoolin of your ways
For clever devils he'll make them
- Robert Burns on an anonymous school teacher
Here lies the father of taxation
May heaven, his faults forgiving
Grant him repose, which he, whilst living,
Would never grant the nation
- RA Davenport on Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Here Lies
Ezekail Aikle
Aged 102
The Good
Die Young
- Anonymous
Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she's at rest and so am I
- John Dryden (1631-1700) on his wife
Hotten
Rotten
Forgotten
- George Sala on John Hotten
Where his soul's gone or how it fares
Nobody knows, and nobody cares
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