BRIEF FPITAPHS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 88, 12 May 1916, Page 2

BRIEF FPITAPHS.

The epitaph which Mr Thomas Hill, of Aiidover, composed for himself is at once original and laconic. It tuns : Loved. Worked. I' rayed. Played.

With the warm urgency of vounf; blood, Thanking God 'for all His gifts. Pawed on (here follows the date).

But though this is short it is easily beaten for brevity' l>y the epitaph of a Scotsman, Thomas Thorp. H e bequeathed all his wealth to his two nephews, but with this proviso, that two lines of poetry were to appear ou his gravestone. The nephews found poets to be men of words, and monumental masons men of letters. So to deereaso the bills of the latter thev tried to emulate the former, and evolved:

Here lies the corp Of Thomas Thorp. But further consideration considerably reduced their expense, for the epitaph that appeared on the tombstone was; Thorp's Qoppse v *