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EPITAPH ON P.P. CLERK OF THE PARISH by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: O READER, IF THAT THOU CANST READ
Last Line: THAT NEVER SPARETH NONE.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
SAID TO BE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

O reader, if that thou canst read,
Look down upon this Stone;
Do all we can, Death is a Man
That never spareth none.




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