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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EPITAPH, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What beauty would have lovely styled
Last Line: To fetch the flesh, we keep the roll.
First Line: What beauty would have lovely styled
Last Line: To fetch the flesh, we keep the roll.
What beauty would have lovely styled,
What manners pretty, nature mild,
What wonder perfect, all were filed
Upon record in this blessed child.
And, till the coming of the soul
To fetch the flesh, we keep the roll.
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