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EPITAPH ON MR. CHESTER, OF CHICHELEY by WILLIAM COWPER

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First Line: TEARS FLOW, AND CEASE NOT, WHERE THE GOOD MAN LIES
Last Line: AS HUSBAND, PARENT, BROTHER, MASTER, FRIEND.
TEARS flow, and cease not, where the good man lies,
Till all who know him follow to the skies.
Tears therefore fall where CHESTER'S ashes sleep;
Him wife, friends, brothers, children, servants, weep;
And justly--few shall ever him transcend
As husband, parent, brother, master, friend.



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