Variant: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Source: Richard II
“We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.”
"The Pasho", Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004
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