| Author | Message | ||
     Brian Dickens (Bri) Senior Member Username: Bri Post Number: 332 Registered: 08-2002 |
Out for the weekend camping, went to a cemetery in southern colorado and found this head stone.  It reads: So live that when thy summons comes to join the innumerable caravan which moves to that mysterious realm where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death. Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night. Scourged to his dungeon: but sustained and soothed by an unaltering trust. Approach thy grave like the one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams. The rovers are mine and Eric Pena.  | ||
| Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Senior Member Username: Leslie Post Number: 2020 Registered: 02-2002 |
Very poetic, elegant..... I like it.... -L | ||
| Blue (Blue) New Member Username: Blue Post Number: 1 Registered: 04-2003 |
That's William Cullen Bryant's poem Thanatopsis, early 19th century | ||
| Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Senior Member Username: Leslie Post Number: 2021 Registered: 02-2002 |
I didn't recognize it; I have some reminiscent memory of something like it from Coleridge, but poetry wasn't my strong subject in school... -L | ||
| B-Mc (Mcartist) Member Username: Mcartist Post Number: 93 Registered: 05-2002 |
The best one I heard of was in Fla and reads "I told you I was sick" She was a hypochondriac w/ a sense of humor. Not poetic but it does bring a smile to your face Brad | ||
| Greg (Gparrish) Senior Member Username: Gparrish Post Number: 1197 Registered: 04-2002 |
I've seen one before that read: "As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, you soon will be, Prepare for Death and follow me." Sort of erie......... | ||
| Brian Dickens (Bri) Senior Member Username: Bri Post Number: 333 Registered: 08-2002 |
We thought that it sounded kind of Goth. Blue, you amaze me, but I have never been to much for poetry... small things amuze small minds I guess. Cool you knew this though. Cheers, Brian | ||
| Kennith P. Whichard III (Kennith) Senior Member Username: Kennith Post Number: 317 Registered: 05-2002 |
I love to write poetry, Allways did. It seems there are only a few ways to describe certain feelings to people who may not have experienced them. Poetry is the way I choose to express such things. I, however, did not recognise that work. Good job Blue! Cheers, Kennith | ||
| Brian Dickens (Bri) Senior Member Username: Bri Post Number: 337 Registered: 08-2002 |
I thought that the way that it was written on the stone was just strange, but in fact it was the way that it was intended to be written... Here it is again with more authentic punc an caps, more like it appeared on the stone. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. | ||
| Brian Friend (Brianfriend) Senior Member Username: Brianfriend Post Number: 645 Registered: 09-2002 |
That sure is a BIG DICK | ||
| Joe Blanchard (Joeblanch) New Member Username: Joeblanch Post Number: 36 Registered: 01-2003 |
Wrong board Brianfriend... LOL! :.) | ||
| Jess Alvarez (Jester) Member Username: Jester Post Number: 142 Registered: 11-2002 |
Is it just me or does that second picture (the one with the rovers) have some sort of crazy looking ghosting over it that makes it look almost like people walking around the cemetary? It has a bunch of indiscernable shapes and colors, probably from the jpg reduction, but still kind of has a bit of creep factor to it. Very cool. | ||
| Brian Dickens (Bri) Senior Member Username: Bri Post Number: 338 Registered: 08-2002 |
Those really are ghosts, poor souls that came out of graves like this:  | ||
| Eric Pena (Evalp) Senior Member Username: Evalp Post Number: 457 Registered: 06-2002 |
Man that cemetary was creepy! That one creeped me out the most! |
