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SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

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First Line: KIND READER! TAKE YOUR CHOICE TO CRY OR LAUGH
Last Line: TEN THOUSAND JUST AS FIT FOR HIM AS YOU.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;

KIND Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here HAROLD lies -- but where's his Epitaph?
If such you seek, try Westminster, and view
Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.



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