I remembered something like this from way back, I forget where, but found it again tonight
Poor John Scott lies buried here;
Tho’ once he was both hale and stout,
Death stretched him on his bitter bier:
In another world he hops about
This is from a fascinating work of - scholarship really - entitled Liquid Epitaphs. Access it here https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article/11/2/94/29924/Liquid-Epitaphs
Epitaph for a Brewer
I remembered something like this from way back, I forget where, but found it again tonight
Poor John Scott lies buried here;
Tho’ once he was both hale and stout,
Death stretched him on his bitter bier:
In another world he hops about
This is from a fascinating work of - scholarship really - entitled Liquid Epitaphs. Access it here https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article/11/2/94/29924/Liquid-Epitaphs