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EPITAPH ON PURSY by HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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First Line: TRAVELLER, THIS IS NO PRISON
Last Line: HERE LIES THE ENGRAVER.
Subject(s): ENGRAVING AND ENGRAVERS; EPITAPHS;
Traveller, this is no prison,
He is not dead, but risen.
Then is there need,
To fill his grave,
And truth to save,
That we should read, --
In Pursy's favor
Here lies the engraver.



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