Interesting the messages some leave at their grave, they sometimes startle me with the importance and urgency that they demand our attention. Here are a couple that I have written down from stones In Scotland in Angus area. There may be some errors, as it was difficult to read some of the words on the older decaying stones.

The following had words underlined, I have put them in italics.

Reader cease thy pace and stay, hearken unto what we say. As you are such once were we. As we are such shall you be. Then provide whilst time you have, to come Godly unto your grave.

I think the following was taken from the gravestone of an ‘Alexander Robie’ Who died in 1830 (I really like this one and another which I have not written and been unable to find since!)

Now passed from earth to heaven the spark divine, Its fragile mansion here untenanted in dreary stillness crumbles into dust, But desolations self shall have an end, hid from these ruins a fabric shall arise, In stateliest grandeur lovely in its form, The joyous home of an immortal soul.

Posted on October 30th, 2007 by emma
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