Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED ON A SIMILIAR OCCASION, by WILLIAM COWPER



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INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED ON A SIMILIAR OCCASION, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader! Behold a monument
Last Line: Of a great burial here.


(AT CHILLINGTON, THE SEAT OF T. GIFFARD, ESQ. 1791)


Reader! behold a monument
That asks no sigh or tear,
Though it perpetuate the event
Of a great burial here.





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