Tract by William Carlos Williams | Poetry Foundation
Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
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"My days have been spent in searching for the revelation of that will; but my days have been mournful, because my search failed. I solicited direction: I turned on every side where glimmerings of light could be discovered.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Protocol in the funeral industry says that one person may go alone to pick up bodies from hospitals, nursing homes, and the coroner’s office, but a team of two people must pick up a person who died at home. When a house call came in, I was to be Chris’s number two.