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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH: 22, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a name, a place, who now have none
Last Line: On a grey slab is all I've had of fame!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fame; Graves; Dead, The; Reputation; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: I had a name, a place, who now have none
Last Line: On a grey slab is all I've had of fame!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fame; Graves; Dead, The; Reputation; Tombs; Tombstones
I had a name, a place, who now have none,
For all I was lies crushed beneath a stone.—
Fame was my Mistress—but a crumbling name
On a grey slab is all I've had of Fame!
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