- I fall asleep in the full and certain hope
that my slumber shall not be broken;
and that, though I be all-forgetting,
yet I shall not be all-forgotten,
but continue that life
in the thoughts and deeds
of those I have loved.
Samuel Butler
‘I Fall Asleep in the Full and Certain Hope’ is taken from chapter 10 of “Erewhon Revisited,” by Samuel Butler, and was written by Butler as the epitaph of a female Erwhonian who died around 1550.