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The Alhambra and Other Poems

By F. B. Money-Coutts [i.e. F. B. T. Coutts-Nevill]

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A Wise Man

Stranger, weep! Beneath this stone
Lies a man for knowledge known:
Yet, since he was wholly wise,
God forbade him Paradise.