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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Tue Aug 19, 2014, 06:22 AM Aug 2014

On His 75th Birthday

I strove with none;
for none was worth my strife,
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life,
it sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Walter Savage Landor 1853

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On His 75th Birthday (Original Post) My Good Babushka Aug 2014 OP

That's pretty good... pinboy3niner Aug 2014 #1

My favorite epitaph... malthaussen Aug 2014 #2

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

1. That's pretty good...

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:52 AM

Aug 2014

I'd write some words for my epitaph, but I'm too busy. DU and all...

I haven't decided whether I want my ashes interred in a veterans' cemetery columbarium or just scattered somewhere. Maybe I could join MFM...

I'm tempted to dash off a few lines, but I'm afraid they'd just end in another ellipsis...

malthaussen

(17,186 posts)

2. My favorite epitaph...

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Tue Aug 19, 2014, 09:55 AM

Aug 2014

... "I expected this, just not so soon!"

-- Mal

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