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The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott

Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes

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EPITAPH.

FOR A MONUMENT TO MAJOR CARTWRIGHT.

Here lies the man, for virtues only known,
Who look'd on Truth's fair face, and saw his own:
Therefore, this humble verse attention craves;
For good men's lives are holier than their graves.