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EPITAPH ON CASTLEREAGH by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

Poet Analysis

First Line: POSTERITY WILL NE'ER SURVEY
Last Line: STOP, TRAVELER, AND PISS
Subject(s): HATE; STEWART, ROBERT. 2D MARQUIS LONDONDERRY; CASTLEREAGH, VISCOUNT;

Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this;
Here lies the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveler, and piss




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