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EPITAPH ON JOHN KNIGHT by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: O FAIREST PATTERN TO A FAILING AGE
Last Line: IN DEATH, BY FRIENDSHIP, HONOUR, VIRTUE; MOURN'D.
Subject(s): MOURNING; BEREAVEMENT;
O fairest Pattern to a failing Age!
Whose Publick Virtue knew no Party rage:
Whose Private Name all Titles recommend,
The pious Son, fond Husband, faithful Friend:
In Manners plain, in Sense alone refind,
Good without Show, and without weakness kind:
To Reason's equal dictates ever true,
Calm to resolve, and constant to pursue.
In Life, with ev'ry social Grace adorn'd,
In Death, by Friendship, Honour, Virtue; mourn'd.



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