The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21564 Message #230147
Posted By: kendall
18-May-00 - 06:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your headstone
Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
Oh hell, you may as well know the rest of it. At my memorial service, I have asked the kids to get someone to recite the last few lines of Thannatopsis, by Willian Cullen Bryant.
..So live that when your summons comes to join that innumerable caravan which moves to that mysterious realm, Where each shall take his place in the silent halls of death..
Thou go, not like the quarry slave at night, scourged to his dungeon
But sustained by an unfaltering trust,
Approach thy grave like one who wraps the covers of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.