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THE EPITAPH by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPING. SO IT READ
Last Line: "BE MAN ENOUGH TO OWN IT."
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;

@3Not dead, but sleeping@1. So it read.
Said Pat, when he was shown it,
"I would, bedad, if I was dead,
Be man enough to own it."



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