I have been out today recording memorial inscriptions at a church where I am working on the entire churchyard - a huge task to take on single-handed.
Very often, as well as names and dates of death, a headstone will carry a long or short verse, not always from the bible. I have seen hymn verses used. Today I was confused by one I saw but I looked it up when I got home. It read:
Even to Hoary Hairs will I carry you
This is, in fact, a quotation from Isaiah 46:4, although it has hoar rather than hoary.
You live and learn.
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