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JOHN VIRGIN by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF THOU, STRANGER, BE JOHN VIRGIN, THEN THE
Last Line: SIX FATHOM IN THE SEA.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;

If thou, Stranger, be John Virgin, then the
Corse withinunder is nameless, for the Sea
so disfigured thy Face, none could tell
whether thou were John Virgin or no:
Ay, and whatever name I bore
I thank the Lord I be
Six foot in English earth, and not
Six fathom in the sea.



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