Poems on Various Subjects with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden |
An EPITAPH.
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An EPITAPH.
Here Lies EDWARD BOND, Esq; OF THE County of Armagh, Much Lamented by all that knew Him. He Ordered his Funeral should be Private; And, instead of Pomp, Order'd a Hundred Pounds to the Poor: He Order'd A Dial to be erected at his Grave, And the following Verses:
No marble pomp, no monumental praise,My tomb this dial, epitaph these lays.
Pride, and low moldering dust but ill agree,
Death levels me to beggars, kings to me.
Alive, instruction was my work each day;
Dead, I persist instruction to convey.
Here Reader mark, perhaps now in thy prime,
The stealing steps of never-standing time;
Thou'lt be what I am, catch the present hour,
Employ it well, for that is in thy power.
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