BRIEF EPITAPHS.

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 16

BRIEF EPITAPHS.

The epitaph which Mr. Thomas Hill, of Andover, composed for himself is at once original and laconic. It runs: — Loved. Worked, Prayed. * Played. With the warm urgency of young blood, Thanking God for all His gifts.•Passed on (here follows the date). But though this is short it is easily beaten for brevity by the epitaph of a Scotsman, Thomas Thorp. He bequeathed all his wealth to two nephews, but with this proviso, that two lines of poetry were to appear on his gravestone. The nephews found poets to be men of words, and monumental masons men of letters. So tb decrease tho bills of the latter they tried to emulate the former, and evolved : Hero lies the corp OE Thomas Thorp. But further consideration considerably reduced their expenses, .for tho epitaph that appeared on the tombstone was: Thorp's t -Corpse.