I literally stumbled across (not over) Trevethy Quoit on a walkabout. It is an early Neolithic burial chamber (c3500BC). Quoit meaning a prehistoric megalithic structure usually in a circular form and Trethevy apparently deriving from the Cornish for ‘place of the graves’.
And since I was visiting Cornish churches with their windswept, lichen and ivy clad graves, here are some other tombstones that caught my eye (with some additional, fitting quotes).
Ellen aged 9
” A tiny lamp has gone out in my tent – I bless the flame that warms the universe.” Songs of the Death of Children, by Friedrich Rückert
Ferns and monumental tomb
“‘He gave his honours to the world again, his blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.’ Henry VI, Part 3.”
Victorian décor and ivy
“He is not dead, he doth not sleep, he hath awaken’d from the dream of life.’” Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Windswept Seaview
“Here he lies where he longed to be; home is the sailor, home from the sea,”. Requiem, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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