The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07
A Number OF Remarkable Epit"Phs
Gathered from Various Sources.


IL is well that writer's of epitaphs recog
nize the value of giving to the world thu
history in brief of those they celebrate
else a great deal of valuable information
concerning people who have renowned
their interest in the things of this transitory
existence would be lost Certainly W.
O could i'll afford to spare the following, from
Q Bath Abbey, in which wit and accuracy
s are so admirably combined:
Here lies Ann Manu.
She lived an Old Maid
And died an Old Mann,
In Ockham Church, Surrey, England, We
!, fall in with this tiptop description of fall
ing leaf from the tree of life:
The Lord saw good was topping of wood,
And down fell from the tree,
met with a check and broke my blessed neck
And SO death topped OIL me,
Coming nearer home we drop into poetry
at Biddeford Me-, and regret that the mar
riage feast did coldly furnish forth the fu-
neral table;
The wedding day appointed was
The wedding clothes provided,
But, ere that day did come, alas
He sCkened and he deded
1t is evident that the Swan did not not
sing this strain from Stratford>on-Avon,
though he probably borrowed from it the
idea Expressed in, "He was man take him
for all in all, etc."
Mike was in temper and in sole sinsere
And Husband tender and Father deer
He was q Father kind
And modist in his mind
A greeter blessn to a umman
Never more was gvn
Nor greater loss eksept the loss of Heay'n.
The lady referred to in these lines may
not have been a relative of the banker
Coutts, but she was certainly quite as famil-
lar with vaults:
In this church-yard lies Eppie Coutts
Either here or Hcreabout
But whaur it is none can tell
Till Eppie rise and tell herself
Here is rare example of fortitude, which
was finally overcome by tender recollection
of the deceased:
Her husband never dropped a tear
Till he had placed her body here
And then he blubbered like a great lOut
For fear she'd scratch her passage out.
Fifty years is a comparatively brief sepa-
ration when eternity is taken into eonsidera-
ton:
1 am anxiously expecting you-A. D. 1927
Here ANA. D. 1867
We do not assert that that the lady SO
touchingly, dramatically and rheumatical-
ly recalled below was pedestrienne, but it
is reasonable to suppose that she might have
been, from the way she went out of the
world:
Poor Martha Smell, hers gone away
Her would if her could but her couldn't stay.
Herd two sore legs and baddish cough,
But her legs it was as carried her of.
The evil effects of drinking water advert
cd to in the subjoined will give comfort to
many stimulating soul:
Here lies l and my three daughters
All from drinking the Cheltenham waters;
ii we had kept to the EPSON salts
We shouldn't have been in these here vaults.
Our friends, the druggists, must look
lpon this this charge as base libel. 1t is :
10 doubt weak invention, and the child, {
Illuded to gracefully died of natural causes: !
n this grave reposes dear little dead
use Lee her name and her age just one year; Z
he died Of drug stutiS in too large dose, S
Which threw her in fits and made her vamoose. q
We too have run our race, as far as grave n
objects are concerned, and if the collec~
on we have offered is not as deep as a n
tomb, nor as musical as a church bell, we Of
IA only hope with Mercution, that it q.
i'll do. r.