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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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lx. Epitaph.

If Monumentes were lasting wee would raise
A fairer frame to thy desertes & praise;
But Auarice or Misdeuotiones Rage
These tumbling down, or brought to nought by age,
Twice making man to dye, This Marble beares
An Embleme of affection & our teares.