For Ever & Ever

A list of gravestone epitaphs from The Final Word: the Book of Canadian Epitaphs by Nancy Millar, published by Brindle & Glass in 2004. 

This wasn’t my idea
I told you I was sick
All things considered, we’d rather be in Philadelphia
She loved, was loved, and died
If tears could build a / stairway, and memories / A lane, I’d walk right up /
     To heaven and bring / You home again
To be continued
He did his bit
Make no small plans, / They hold no magic to stir men’s blood
It’s not that I am always right / It’s just that I am never wrong
Today we bloom, tomorrow we die
Short spring, early autumn
Here lies / Petter D. Brodair / in his last and best bedroom
Weep not for me now / Weep for me never / For I’m going to do /
     nothing for ever & ever
It is so soon that I am done / I wonder why I was begun
Do not resurrect
Big Jack has gone upstairs
The summit attained
Lay my spurs upon my breast / My rope and saddle tree. / And as the boys lay me to rest /
     Go turn my horses free.
He feared God, did nothing mean / Shot straight and stayed clean
Poor Pat, shot by the Indians
Died from gunshot wounds / Mistaken for a bear