Soul Cairn Coffin Verses Inscription

Locations

 * Soul Cairn

Content
Etched into a metal plate are the images of five coffins. Beneath each coffin image is a short verse or epigram. On the lid of the each coffin is a single word.

beneath the first coffin:

So dark, dirty, cold this place,

To stay you would refrain

Yet those who occupy this place

Never do complain

marking the lid of the first coffin:

GRAVE

beneath the second coffin:

The gift your mother gives you,

Though prized by all, the long and short of it,

Too much of it kills you every time.

marking the lid of the second coffin:

LIFE

beneath the third coffin:

What was the sight my eyes were giving

When I saw the dead carrying the living?

marking the lid of the third coffin:

BOAT

beneath the fourth coffin:

We say some things improve with death.

What stinks when living, but dead smells good?

marking the lid of the fourth coffin:

PIG

beneath the fifth coffin:

Who makes it neither needs nor wants it.

Who buys it neither uses nor wears it.

Who uses it neither sees nor feels it.

marking the lid of the fifth coffin:

COFFIN