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Thread #3436   Message #4166902
Posted By: and e
04-Mar-23 - 07:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The worms crawl in.../Hearse Song
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: The worms crawl in.../Hearse Song
An obituary:
Uniontown, Pa. -- William H. Farwell, for more than twenty-five years at the head of a successful job-printing business and a well-known and popular business man. He was noted for his generous and gentle nature, typified in the verses which he had printed on the back of his business cards, as follow:
"Did you ever think as the hearse drove by,
It wouldn't be long till you and I
Would go riding out in the big plumed hack,
And never remember of coming back?

"Did you ever think as you strove for gold,
A dead man's hand a dollar can't hold
You may pinch and tug, you may strive and save,
But you lose it all when you reach the grave."

Pg 414, The Inland Printer. Vol. XLVII. June, 1911. No. 3.

Google books here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Inland_Printer_American_Lithographer/-AohAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22remember+of+coming+back%22&pg=PA414&printsec=frontcover