Epitaphs: Random Listings - Australian Epitaphs

A Few Short Years

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TranscriptA few short years of labour past
We reach the happy shore
Where death divided friends at last
Shall meet to part no more.

Memorial NameCharles Hall

P O Happy Day That Fixed My Choice

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TranscriptO happy day that fixed my choice
On Thee my Saviour and my God!
Well may this glowing heart rejoice
And tell its raptures all abroad.

Memorial NameWilliam Wise

Gone To Be WIth Jesus

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TranscriptGone to be with Jesus in the climes of endless joy.
Where sin and death never come, and parting will be no more.

Memorial NameTheophilus J Male

He Asked Life Of Thee

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TranscriptHe asked life of thee and thou gavest it
Him even length of days for ever and ever
Jesus said - I came that they may have
Life and may have it abun...

Memorial NameWalter Frederic Oldham

Their Voices Still Keep Whispering

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TranscriptTheir voices still keep whispering
Be loving brave and true
At the of a lane of Shadows
We'll be waiting there for you.

Memorial NameHerbert Kraft

Father In Thy Gracious Keeping

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TranscriptFather in Thy gracious keeping,
Leave we now, our loved ones sleeping

Memorial NameElizabeth Ann Randall

At Rest Dear Son With Comrades

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TranscriptAt rest dear son with comrades brave
You, who for right, your life laid down,
The Angels know your grave today,
And weave for you, the warriors cro...

Who Plucked That Lovely Flower

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TranscriptWho plucked that lovely flower;
"The Master",
The gardener held his peace

Memorial NameJoan Irene Vaughan

Life Is Earnest

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TranscriptLife is earnest, when tis o'er,
Thou returnest never more.

Memorial NameEzra Battye

P Our Wasting Lives Grow Shorter Still

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TranscriptOur wasting lives grow shorter still,
As days and months increase,
And every beating pulse we tell
Leaves but the number less.

Asleep in Jesus b...

Memorial NameElisabeth Badenoch

P Life Is The Time To Serve The Lord

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TranscriptLife is the time to serve the Lord
The time to insure a great reward
And wilst the lamp holds our to burn
The vilest sinner may return

Memorial NameSarah Ann Crouch

P One Less At Home.

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TranscriptOne less at home!
The charmed circle broken - A dear face
Missed day by day from its accustomed place
But cleansed and saved and perfected by grace...

Memorial NameMary Ann Jennings

A Precious One From Us Has Gone

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TranscriptA precious one from us is gone,
A voice we loced is stilled,
A place is vacant in our home,
That never can be filled.

God in his wisdom has reca...

Memorial NameCatherine Gertrude Hodges