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THE TOMB OF DIOGENES, by                    
First Line: "'tell me, good dog, whose tomb you guard so well'"
Last Line: Yes: but the stars are now his dwelling-place'
Subject(s): Cemeteries;death;diogenes;graves; "graveyards;dead, The;tombs;tombstones;


'TELL me, good dog, whose tomb you guard so well.'
'The Cynic's.' 'True; but who that Cynic tell.'
'Diogenes, of fair Sinope's race.'
'What? He that in a tub was wont to dwell?'
'Yes: but the stars are now his dwelling-place.'





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