He smiled and nodded to several other men in his religious group, who sat grave-faced as he was led away.
One of three sages and seekers, he's come a long way to find this child, who sits upright, grave and alert, on his mother's lap, though he's only 2 weeks old.
Watch them and be in the awe of the way they solemnly write figures down on their leather notepads and the way they sit in grave dignity as they crunch those numbers in there head.
Belacqua sat on his grave and watched a man approach with a spade.
Wang Hao's mother, Zhao Chunyun, sat beside the grave, sobbing, while aunts and uncles and cousins hovered over her.
Friends noted that Poe was crushed by her death and sat by her grave, despairing, for hours.
Yesterday, Shebana, 9, sat by the grave of her mother, who was killed in the Neelum Valley in Kashmir.
At the far end of the cemetery, an old man in a straw hat sat by a grave particularly festooned with flowers.
Photo: Men prayed as boys sat on the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai during Lag b'Omer celebrations yesterday at Mt. Meron in northern Israel.
An opportunity to give something back for all that I've received at these hands!' It was a beautiful July day, and I sat at the grave for several hours singing, talking, crying, saying thank you".
A few yards from the edge of the grave sat David and Tim Kendall, son and grandson of George Kendall, the army chaplain who, in 1920, selected and exhumed the six unidentified dead soldiers from different war cemeteries, from whom the unknown warrior was chosen.
