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Here are a few verses and epitaphs from around the world:

Remember friend as you walk by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now you will surely be
Prepare thy self to follow me

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EVERETT EDWARD ELLIOTT
OF THE HEROIC CREW S.S. "TITANIC"
DIED ON DUTY APRIL 15, 1912 AGE 24 YEARS :
"EACH MAN STOOD AT HIS POST
WHILE ALL THE WEAKER ONES WENT BY,
AND SHOWED ONCE MORE TO ALL THE WORLD
HOW ENGLISHMEN SHOULD DIE."

My glass is run, my life is spent,
My earthly temple was but lent
Why should I wish for length of years
To spend them in a vail of tears
Friends nor physicians could not save
My mortal body from the grave
Nor can the grave confine it here
When Christ doth call me to appear.

As the flowers are all made sweeter
by the sunshine and the dew,
so this old world is made brighter
by the livesof folks like you.

Here's to Johnny quite a guy
Very sad he had to die
All was well could not be better
Till he wrote my girl a letter.

Here lie the bones of Elizabeth Charlotte
Born a virgin, died a harlot
She was aye a virgin at seventeen
A remarkable thing in Aberdeen.

Here lies as silent clay
Miss Arabella Young.
Who on the 21st of May,
Began to hold her tongue.

Here lies my wife.
Here let her lie!
Now she's at rest
And so am I.

Here under the dung of the cows and sheep,
Lies an old highclimber fast asleep.
His trees all topped and his lines all hung,
They say the old rascal died full of rum.