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But not for us, O plaintive elegist, Thine epicedial tone of sad farewell To joy in wisdom and to thought in youth!

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

When the procession filed out priests perfumed the coffin with incense and sprinkled it with holy water, acolytes bore aloft their flambeaux, and the choir, now seen to be robed in black, sang epicedial hymns.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas