INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED ON A SIMILIAR OCCASION, by WILLIAM COWPERPoet AnalysisPoet'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.