The Devil's Dictionary: Cemetery
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
CEMETERY
-n.
An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games:
His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to
overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives
they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here
commemorated by his family, who shared them.
overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives
they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here
commemorated by his family, who shared them.
In the earth we here prepare a
Place to lay our little Clara.
Thomas M. and Mary Frazer
P.S. — Gabriel will raise her.
Place to lay our little Clara.
Thomas M. and Mary Frazer
P.S. — Gabriel will raise her.
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