Tenderly bury the fair young dead,
Pausing to drop on his grave a tear;
Carve on the wooden slab at his head—
“Somebody’s darling lies buried here.”
Bismarck
“I have only one ambition left, I should like to have a good epitaph.”
Prince Bismarck.
In answer to a suggestion of the Pall Mall Gazette to meet Prince Bismarck’s wish, the following epitaphs, among others, were received and published:
He sowed his iron hail o’er many a field,
And dyed in the red the harvest seemed to be