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First Line: HERE LIES DEANE DONNE; ENOUGH; THOSE WORDS ALONE
Last Line: "HIS SPIRIT, WILL DAY, IT IS LESSE BOLD THAN TRUE"
Subject(s): "DONNE, JOHN (1572-1631);EPITAPHS;POETRY & POETS;"
@3Heere lies Deane Donne;@1 Enough; Those words alone
Shew him as fully, as if all the stone
His Church of Pauls contains, were through inscrib'd
Or all the walkers there, to speake him, brib'd.
None can mistake him, for one such as Hee
DONNE, Deane, or Man, more none shall ever see.
Not man? No, though unto a Sunne each eye
Were turn'd, the whole earth so to overspie.
A bold brave word; Yet such brave Spirits as knew
His Spirit, will say, it is lesse bold then true.



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