relics (?.)
- afterglow
- afterimage
- ashes
- balance
- body
- bones
- butt
- butt end
- cadaver
- candle ends
- carcass
- carrion
- chaff
- clay
- corpse
- corpus delicti
- crowbait
- dead body
- dead man
- dead person
- debris
- decedent
- detritus
- dry bones
- dust
- earth
- embalmed corpse
- end
- fag end
- filings
- food for worms
- fossil
- holdover
- husks
- late lamented
- leavings
- leftovers
- mortal remains
- mummification
- mummy
- odds and ends
- offscourings
- organic remains
- orts
- parings
- rags
- refuse
- reliquiae
- remainder
- remains
- remnant
- residue
- residuum
- rest
- roach
- rubbish
- ruins
- rump
- sawdust
- scourings
- scraps
- shadow
- shavings
- skeleton
- stiff
- straw
- stubble
- stump
- survival
- sweepings
- tenement of clay
- the dead
- the deceased
- the defunct
- the departed
- the loved one
- trace
- vestige
- waste
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid,
With crosses, relics, crucifixes,
Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—
The tools of working our salvation
By mere mechanic operation.
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,—
The labour of an age in piled stones?
Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
