Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
It was only much later I learned that these [by William Knox] were Abraham Lincoln's favourite lines of poetry, and that they were so highly regarded by one of the Tsars (the reference is obscure) that he had them engraved on a golden panel. Even more impressively, it was quoted as an epitaph for The Flash (Barry Allen) in DC Comics Crisis On Infinite Earths #8. Not quite as famous as "Auld Lang Syne", but not bad.
from The Guardian: Burns is not the only bard
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