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    The solitary, silent, solemn scene,
    Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,
    Blended in dust together; where the slave
    Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud
    Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard:
    Where human folly sleeps.

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By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
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By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
There lies a lonely grave;
But no man built that sepulcher,
And no man saw it e'er,
For the angels of God upturned the sod
And laid the dead man there.

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What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod
Its Maker mean'd not should be trod
By man, the read more

What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod
Its Maker mean'd not should be trod
By man, the image of his God,
Erect and free,
Unscourged by Superstition's rod.

by Thomas Campbell Found in: Grave Quotes,
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Of all
The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show
Who car'd about the corpse? read more

Of all
The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show
Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral
Made the attraction, and the black the woe;
There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave read more

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

by Tryon Edwards Found in: Grave Quotes,
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The grave's the market place.

The grave's the market place.

by Unattributed Author Found in: Grave Quotes,
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Nigh to a grave that was newly made,
Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade.

Nigh to a grave that was newly made,
Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade.

by Park Benjamin Found in: Grave Quotes,
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Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,
The little tyrant of his fields withstood,
Some mute inglorious read more

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.

by Thomas Gray Found in: Grave Quotes,
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Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart,
Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;
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Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart,
Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;
Each comic heart must now be grieved to see
The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.

by Robert Fergusson Found in: Grave Quotes,
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Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

by Sir Thomas Browne Found in: Grave Quotes,
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