PRINTER'S EPITAPH.
« No colnrnn trophied for trfMjgl *"£ Shed o'er the printer's .grave a passing tear I mTskateyfom has shifted from his pmS ; But registered in Heaven are all his sins. Nor pious monk was he, nor holy /warTo be ft " W was "I 8 so * c desire ; And, brother typos, think me not uncivil, But '" *yP 0 »" in Pl a jn English, means the d— l. Ho led a sad and wicked life, 'tis true, And drank, as printers generally do ; But now his merry drinking bouts are o'er, And he shall " swig" a pint o* beer no more ! His form shall never more be racked with pain, Nor sorrow's thoughts press heavy on his biain. Death came and folded up his page of life, And took him from this world of care and
strife— Chased every thought of sadness from his head, And locked him up amongst the quiet dead. From every ill of life his frame is shriven, Till he appear before the bar of Heaven ; His earthly composition's gone to mould, Into the quiet gi aye his form is rolled. And all his " typographic " friends deplore The loss of him who'll never frisk-it more. Death sent him packing to the grave stiaight-
way, For all the rule of nature must obey ; £iow, underneath this stone, a mass of pie, This type of human frailty, doth lye.
Jaques.
Castle-street, Dunedin
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 157, 9 February 1871, Page 7
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232PRINTER'S EPITAPH. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 157, 9 February 1871, Page 7
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