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EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2), by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady mary villiers lies
Last Line: May'st find thy darling in an urn.
Variant Title(s): On The Lady Mary Villiers
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


The Lady Mary Villiers lies
Under this stone; with weeping eyes
The parents that first gave her birth,
And their sad friends, laid her in earth.
If any of them, reader, were
Known unto thee, shed a tear;
Or if thyself possess a gem
As dear to thee as this to them
Though a stranger to this place,
Bewail in theirs thy own hard case,
For thou, perhaps, at thy return
May'st find thy darling in an urn.






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