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Of the brig Pilgrim, he says, ``I read of her total loss at sea by fire off the coast of North Carolina. On the records of the United States Custom House at Boston is this epitaph, ``Brig Pilgrim, owner, R. Haley, surrender of transfer 30 June 1856, broken up at Key West. Is it not romantic and appropriate that this vessel, so associated with the then Mexican-Spanish coast of California, should have left her bones on the coast of the once Spanish colony of Florida?
With all his might Bard was struggling to reconcile this big-handed vulgarian with his mental picture of the man who could write for an epitaph: "Here sleeps Joan, the wife of William Drew. She chose this place for rest." But the two ideas were not inclusive. He said aloud: "Aren't you afraid that that black-eyed fellow will run a knife between your ribs one of these dark nights?" "Who?
Did men in Odo live for aye? Was Ponce de Leon's fountain there? For near and far, you saw no ranks and files of graves, no generations harvested in winrows. In Odo, no hard-hearted nabob slept beneath a gentle epitaph; no requiescat-in-pace mocked a sinner damned; no memento-mori admonished men to live while yet they might.
"She's gone, and she never knew that he had come." With a gesture that appeared as natural as the dropping of a leaf, she pressed down the eyelids over the expressionless eyes. "Well, that's the way life is, I reckon," she remarked, as an epitaph over the obscure destiny of Mrs. Green. "Yes, that's the way life is," repeated Corinna under her breath.
Had the epitaph been written on the poor conspirator who died lately in prison, after a confinement of more than forty years, without any crime proved against him, the sentiment had been just and pathetical; but why should Trumbull be congratulated upon his liberty who had never known restraint? On the Hon.
And every new-born love doth laugh Above his brother's epitaph, The last light love worn out and gone. 'That is not your doctrine, mon ami, he said as he turned round on the music-stool. 'You are faithful to Miss Allen? 'I am faithful to Miss Allen, certainly, said Christopher, reaching out his hand for the violin, and again chuckling weakly.
An arbor is visible, or rather the wreck of an arbor, and under it a table still stands not entirely destroyed by time. At the aspect of this garden that is no more, the negative joys of the peaceful life of the provinces may be divined as we divine the history of a worthy tradesman when we read the epitaph on his tomb.
His epitaph ought to read: "Here lies the plain man of common sense, whose life was all means and no end." A remedy will be worth finding. One evening it is bound to happen in the evening when it does happen the plain man whose case I endeavoured to analyse in the previous chapter will suddenly explode.
On the house was formerly legible an inscription purporting that to him to whom God is a father every land is a fatherland; and the epitaph on the tomb still attests the feelings with which the stern old Puritan to the last regarded the people of Ireland and the House of Stuart. Tories and Whigs had concurred, or had affected to concur, in paying honour to Walker and in putting a brand on Ludlow.
Let me therefore beg you, Sir, to consider me as your Patient, and to give me more certain Rules to walk by than those I have already observed, and you will very much oblige Your Humble Servant. This Letter puts me in mind of an Italian Epitaph written on the Monument of a Valetudinarian; 'Stavo ben, ma per star Meglio, sto qui': Which it is impossible to translate.
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