More Music in Cemeteries IV. . .

~~ This page dedicated to ~~
~~  all our beloved four-footed, feathered and furry friends  ~~
~~  much missed  ~~

Happiness        is the death of         desire. . .         What I hold in        my heart

                           I'll take to the grave. . . 

                                    --unknown, Montreal bar bathroom stall, April 4th, 2003

What was warm is strangely cold.
Whence dissolved the little breath?
How could this small body hold
So immense a thing as Death?

- from "For a Dead Kitten" by Sara Henderson Hay

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end,
but rather that it shall never have a beginning.  
        - Cardinal Newman

Let us endeavor so to live that, when we come to die,
even the undertaker will be sorry.  - Mark Twain

Death stands above me, whispering low
  I know not what into my ear:
Of his strange language all I know
  Is, there is not a word of fear.

- "Death Stands Above Me" by Walter Savage Landor

Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.  -- unknown

It's all been said and felt before
But repetition does not ease the pain;
The battered heart that thought it felt no more
Learns it can break as bitterly again.

--from "1943" by Sarah Churchill from The Empty Spaces

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(Photos by Debra or myself, taken in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec and in the Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Ontario.  Please do not use them without permission.)

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