Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 26, 2011
January 26th, 2011
Today’s Pondering Yet Truly Morbid Fact
The gravestone of John Linning, who died 1824 in Devon, England, has a rather ponderous epitaph:
Stop, reader! stop and view this stone
And ponder well where I am gone.
Then, pondering,
take thou home
this rhyme –
The grave next
opened may be thine.
Culled from: Eccentric Epitaphs by Michelle Lovric
If you’re going to have a “rhyme” on your gravestone, at least make it a real rhyme.