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queentonic

(243 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:10 PM Jun 2020

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”

Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel 1805

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The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Original Post) queentonic Jun 2020 OP

"Unwept, unhonored, and unsung." The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #1

Sir Scott's Prescience Prof. P.E. Name Jun 2020 #2

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. "Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."

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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:22 PM

Jun 2020

A fitting end - and soon, I hope.

Prof. P.E. Name

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2. Sir Scott's Prescience

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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:55 PM

Jun 2020

We know great minds can read mere mortals and peer into their future......I just didn’t know Sir Scott could look into that far forward and with such accuracy.
Proposed Epitaph: “Here lies ______. He loved his greasy, fast food, his unremitted lies, and most of all HIMSELF.”

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