"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

-Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene V.

"It is portentious, and a thing of state

That here at midnight, in our our little town,

A mourning figure walks, and will not rest,

Near the old courthouse pacing up and down."

-Vachel Lindsay

"Then a spirit passed before my face;

the hair of my flesh stood up."

-The Book of Job 4:15

"Knowledge by suffering entereth,

And life is perfected by death."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Old Athens Cemetery photos copyright Cheri Mohr Drake, 1997-2000. All rights reserved.