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From: "Linda Menikos" <>
Subject: Re: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Help with an epitaph
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:48:45 -0600
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Hi,

Remember the "ashes to ashes & dust to dust?

Maybe it is: Here dust is mouldering back to dust
The soul return to God
Let those who kept the sacred trust
Lie here beneath the sod.

Come on gang, let's get more suggestions!

Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Vaughan Patterson <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Help with an epitaph


> Hi Laura in Memphis,
>
> I might be able to help with part of it. The last word in the last line
rhymes
> with "God". The only word that does this and fits the context is "sod".
Also,
> lines one and three contain 8 syllables, and lines two and four contain 6.
Try
> this:
>
> Here dust is mouldering (dah ti dah)
> The soul return to God
> Let those who (dah ti dah ti dah)
> Lie (dah) beneath the sod.
>
> Beyond this, I can only make a wild quess. If we assume that lines 1 and
3 also
> rhyme, one guess might be:
>
> Here dust is mouldering into earth
> The soul return to God
> Let those who would deny its worth
> Lie here beneath the sod.
>
> More guesses, anyone?
>
> Joe Patterson
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone has run across this epitaph before; what I
ahve is
> > incomplete, and it would be wonderful if it could be figured out as this
> > particular headstone was smashed by kids and spread to kingdom come....
> >
> > Here dust is mouldering (to eternity?)
> > The soul return to God
> > Let those who ________________
> > Lie ______________________
> >
> > Thanks so much!
> >
> > Laura in Memphis
> > (But doing cemetery work in Ohio!)
> >
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