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With truly Christian zeal he nations fired,
And all who knew him mourned when he expired.

176. From South Wales.

In Vaynor Churchyard, near Merthyr Tydfil, not unlike the Irish epitaph,
No. 34:—

Here lies the bodies of three
Children dear,
Two at Llanwono and
One here.

(See No. 299.)

177. From a Churchyard in Pembrokeshire:—

Here lie I, and no wonder I’m dead,
For the wheel of the waggon went over my head.

178. From Curmwallon Churchyard, Cornwall:—

Shall we all die?
We shall die all.
All die shall we?
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Die all we shall.

179. On a Collier:—

Altho’ his face was dirty,
His heart, they say, was clean.
His age was only forty
When he ceased to have a being,—
That is, he ceased to live,
So far as this world goes;

9 Editor’s note: Note that this reads the same backwards, forwards, up and down.