Saturday, March the 10th, 2018

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Becoming Seraphic

An item in Futility Closet yesterday includes some amusing tombstone inscriptions. One in particular filled me with glee, and I hereby declare that the words in bold type must appear on my own grave, when the time comes …

Sacred to the memory of inestimable worth of unrivalled excellence and virtue, N.R., whose ethereal parts became seraphic, May 25th, 1767.