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«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»

«Be every mourner's sleep tonight / Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.»

«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»

«There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.»

«And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: / And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.»

«I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.»

«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.»

«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»