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“Often I return to the grave after leaving flowers – tulips, lilies, carnations – to find the heads eaten by deer. It’s just as good a use for the flowers as any, and one Paul would have liked. The ...”
“I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.”
“O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?”
“Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.”
“Dust into dust and under dust to lie Sans wine sans song sans singer and - sans end.”
“Oh how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!”
“Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.”
