EPITAPHS.
We have received the following interesting communication from “ F.A.M./' Feilding: Sir,—ln your last issue you gave some novel epitaphs, but in one there wore only the terminal lines. I copied it many years ago, and will give you the full text, which is amusing from its eccentricity of metre— William Matheson hero Hob Whose ag© was forty-on®, February seventeenth he dies, Went Isbell Mitchell from i • •Who was hia married wife The fourth part of his life. - .1 The soul it cannot die ■ • • ; Though the body bo turned to clay, ' Yet meet again they must at the last day.. Trumpets shall sound, archangels cry 1 Como forth, Isbell Mitchell, to meet Will Mathcson in the aky. 1 With your permission I will add another (that I have never seen in print), as it is a reminder of the time when war expenses compelled a tax to be put on cliimnies— A house she hath, it’s made of such good fashion * The tenant ne’er shall pay for reparation. From; chimney money, too, this cell is free— Of such ahouse who would not tenant be? The above, I beliovoi I extracted from Folkstohe Churchyard. -
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2691, 14 December 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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193EPITAPHS. New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2691, 14 December 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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