Funny Scottish Epitaphs: without a sob

In hope to sing without a sob

the anthem ever new,

I gladly bid the dusty glob

and vain delights adieu.

From Strichen, Aberdeenshire

Raymond Lamont-Brown: Scottish Epitaphs. Chambers, Edinburgh, 1990

 

 

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