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In the town that I live, Edgar Allan Poe also lived there for a short while as a child. Today, I was taking photos of the church and school he attended, and the graves of his relatives.

This headstone isn't one Poe would have ever seen. She used to sit atop the headstone facing the opposite direction. Vandals knocked her off of the headstone and now she's been placed, hiding behind it.

The original photo I took - [link]
More about Poe in my town - [link]
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~humphyhunter Dec 2, 2011
When Edgar Allan Poe (aged 6) came to Irvine in 1815, part of his school lessons were to record gravestone epitaphs from adjoining churchyard. The following are samples of the very inscriptions he would have seen:-

"Mourn not for me my parents dear,
I am not dead but sleeping here.
My debt is paid my grave you see,
Prepare in time to follow me."

"The stroke of death none can escape.
The infant's tender heart, youth's opening bloom, manhood's ripe age, all feel his fatal dart.
Reader prepare times on the wing,
Thy hour ere long shall come.
The voice that bids thee now prepare,
Speaks from an early tomb."

"Remember man as thou go by,
As thou art now so once was I.
As I am now so must thou be,
Therefore prepare to follow me."

"Now youth beware and have a care,
And live a pious life.
For death's commissioner none doth spare,
Whatever age of life."
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Mood: Adoration *bampop Dec 2, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you. Nice name you picked, humphy x :XD:

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:ashamed: I wouldn't climb over him to shake hands with Harold Wilson...
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