[CobaltBlue]

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust is from the Book of Common Prayer, and is based on Genesis 3:19.

[js1138]

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust is from the Book of Common Prayer, and is based on Genesis 3:19.

I grew up with and was confirmed with the Book of Common Prayer, but due to a judicious choice of parents, friends and relatives, never heard that service. I miss it. Some things are sacred, even to skeptical humbugs like me, and beautiful language is one of them.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust Descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer and--sans End!

- Omar Khayyám (d.1123) tr. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)