# How Frail Is Man

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1685.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1685

## Face 1

```text
HOW FRAIL IS MAN
LIFE'S BUT A SPAN
YOUTH'S BLLOOM DOTH SOON DECAY
SINCE ADAMS FALL
BOTH GREAT AND SMALL
IS SWEPT BY DEATH AWAY
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002431-side1.JPG)

## Face 1

Not yet transcribed.

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002431-side2.JPG)

Square brackets mark uncertain readings. The title is guessed from the inscription.

Transcriptions CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit kirkyards.scot.