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A PLACID MAN'S EPITAPH |
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A PLACID MAN'S EPITAPH
As for my life, I've led itWith fair content and credit:
It said: “Take this.” I took it.
Said: “Leave.” And I forsook it.
If I had done without it
None would have cared about it,
Or said: “One has refused it
Who might have meetly used it.”
1925.
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