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Letter "M" » mourners
«Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live»
Author: Elizabeth Akers Allen
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«Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say»
«I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.»
«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.In the earth we here prepare a Place to lay our little Clara. --Thomas M. and Mary Frazer P.S. --Gabriel will raise her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.»
«A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves»
«Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true»
«For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.»
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