 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 2004 - 516 pages
...specimen of these epitaphs, take the following found in a bleak gorge of Chatham Isle: Oh, Brother Jack, as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I. Just so game, and just so gay, But now, alack, they've stopped my pay. No more I peep out of my blinkers,... | |
 | Rusty Clark - Art - 2005 - 182 pages
...April 16 1762 in her 54 Year They lived a Virtuous usefull life & died much Lamented Reader behold as you pass by As you are now so once was I As I am now so you must be Prepare for death & follow me. What does a small town doctor have in common with a 14th century Prince of Wales? The... | |
 | Stephen Levine - Self-Help - 2005 - 252 pages
...barely make out the oft-repeated eighteenthcentury quatrain on one decaying headstone: Remember friends as you pass by As you are now so once was I As I am now so you must be Prepare yourselves to follow me. 214 Above grave after grave are inscribed benedictions and wishful thinking,... | |
 | George T. Blakey - History - 2005 - 275 pages
...Fieldworkers copied it from stones in five cemeteries from as early as 1856 to as late as 1914. Remember me as you pass by As you are now so once was I As I am now so must you be Remember death and follow me.22 "Speak no ill of the dead" is a cliche that holds true... | |
 | Neil J. Lehto - 2005 - 238 pages
...photograph of the James Watson headstone in the Mowat Cemetery, inscribed, "Remember, comrade, when passing by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you will be. Prepare thyself to follow me." Fraser, George, and Robinson walked back downstairs to the... | |
 | Leonard Weber - Art - 2005 - 52 pages
...keepers to arrange the stones in neat rows to facilitate maintenance. "Stranger stop and cast an eye As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so you shall be Prepare for death and follow me" EPITAPH FROM THE GRAVESTONE OF JOHN DeCosTER IN GRANARY BURYING... | |
 | Cemeteries - 2005 - 122 pages
...WAS AGAINST HER. BETTER, JUDGMENT." -DOROTHY PARKER, -* F--', .. •*• "REMEMBER FRIEND AS YOU WALK BY AS YOU ARE NOW SO ONCE WAS I AS I AM NOW YOU WILL SURELY BE PREPARE THYSELF TO FOLLOW ME." -UNKNOWN "AH, WELL, THEN I SUPPOSE I SHALL HAVE TO... | |
 | John Woram - Galapagos Islands - 2005 - 462 pages
...page of Porter. But it reads a bit better for having passed through Melville's pen. Oh Brother Jack, as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, Just so game and just so gay, But now, alack, they've stopped my pay. No more I peep out of my blinkers,... | |
 | Bob Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 272 pages
...Memory of Lt Asa Pease who departed this life May 15th 1794: n the 44th year of his age Behold and vew as you pass by as you are now so once was I, as I am now so you must be Prepare for death & follow me Death is a debt to Nature due which I have paid and so must You Carved by Stebbins shop... | |
 | Tom Goodman - Religion - 2007 - 279 pages
...following inscription be engraved upon her tombstone. It was a common one in her time: Behold my friends as you pass by As you are now so once was I As I am now so you will be Prepare for death and follow me Years later, an anonymous visitor to the cemetery added his... | |
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As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me. 
