Gravestones are remarkable, and I also love to look at the inscriptions. Not on a gravestone, but an epitaph by the great Scottish Poet Robert Burns (1759 to 1796)
There's a gravestone at the cemetery where I give tours that has a poem similar to this engraved on it. I didn't realize it was by Robert Burns! Thanks so much for sharing.
Gravestones are remarkable, and I also love to look at the inscriptions. Not on a gravestone, but an epitaph by the great Scottish Poet Robert Burns (1759 to 1796)
An honest man here lies at rest,
As e’er God with His image blest:
The friend of man, the friend of truth;
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with knowledge so inform’d:
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.
There's a gravestone at the cemetery where I give tours that has a poem similar to this engraved on it. I didn't realize it was by Robert Burns! Thanks so much for sharing.