In a New York churchyard:
We shall miss thee, mother.
(Job printing neatly done.)
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At East Thompson, N. Y.:
Here lies one who never sacrificed his reason to superstitious God, nor ever believed that Jonah swallowed the whale
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Alpha White, weight 300 pounds.
Open wide ye golden gates
That lead to the heavenly shore,
Our father suffered in passing through
And mother weighs much more
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He's done a catching cod
And gone to meet his God.
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