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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner

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xxix. Epitaph.

Fame, Register of Tyme,
Write in thy scrowles, that I,
A wisdome louer, and sweet poesie,
Was croped in my Prime,
And ripe in worth, though scarce in yeares, did die.