Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-07-12
EPITAPHS.

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world the history in brief of those the,
celebrate, else Il great deal of valuable
information concerning people who ha ve
renounced their interest in tho things il,
this tran sito:y place CT existence would
be lost. Certainly, we could i'll afford to
spare the following, from Bath Abbey,
England, in which wit and accuracy are
SO admiralty combined:
Here lies Ann Mann,
! She lived an Old Maid,
! And died an Old Man.
In Ockham Church, Surrey, England,
we fall in with this tip-top description
of a falling leaf from the tree of life:
ihe Lord Lord saw good was topping off
And down fell from the tr.e /;
l met with check and broke my blessed
neck,
So death topped off me.
Coming nearer home, we drop into po-
etry at Biddeford, Me-, and regret that
the marriage feast did coldly furnish
forth the funeral table:
The wedding day appointed was,
The wedding clothes provided,
But ere that day did come alas
Hc sickcned and he dieded.
1t was evident that the swan did not
sing this strain from the cburchyard ut
Stratford-on-Avon, though he probably
borrowed from it the idea expressed in
"IIe was man, take him for all in all,"
etc.:
Mike was in temper and in sole slnsere,
Ann Husband tender and a Father deer
ITa u-,u f,t1,or EipI
And mcdest in his mind
A greater blessing to n u,nman
Never NOR was g iv'n
Nor greater loss eksept the loss of
Heav'n.
The lady referred to in these lines may
not have been Il relative OF the banker |
Coutts, but she was certainly quito as
familiar with vaults:
In this churchyard lies Eppie Coutts
Either here or Hereabouts
But whaur it IS none can tell
Till Eppie rise and tell hersel.
Here is 4 rare example of fortitude
which was finally overcome by tender
recollections Of the deceased:
Her husband never dropped tear
Till lie had place. her body here
And then he blubSered like !. great
For fear she'd scratch her passage
out.
Fifty years is q comparatively brief
separation when eternity is taken into
ain anxiously expecting you-A. D. 1927.
Here 1 am "A. D. 1867. /
We do not assert that the lady so
grammatically and rl-eumati-
ALLY recalled below was a pedestrienn ne,
,ut it is reasonable to suppose chat sh e
night have been, from the way she went
'ut of the world:
Poor Martha Smell, hers gone away
Her would it her could but couldn't
stay
Herd two sore legs and baddish
cough
But her legs it was carried her off.
The evil effects of drinking water ad-
'erted to in the subjoned will give COM
ort to many a stimulating soul.
Iere lies me and my three daughters,
Ill from drinking the Cheltenham waters,
we had kept to the Epson salts '
We shouldn't have been iu these here
vaults.
Our friends, the druggists, must look
pom this charge as a base libel. 1t is no
oubt weak invention, and the child I
lluded to probably died of natural
auses: T
n this grave reposes dear little dead
usie Lee her name, and hcr age just one L
year; c
he diod OF drug stuffs in too largo a q
dose,
Which threw her in fits and made her p
VamOSe.
We, too. have run our race. as for Us tt
rave subjects are concerned, and if the p
,llection we have offered is not as doep t.
J II tomb. hope with Mcrcutio that it I'll
ill do.--New York Mail. il