A perpetual memory and other poems: By Henry Newbolt: With brief memoirs by Walter de la Mare and Ralph Furse and a portrait by Sir William Rothenstein |
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Epitaph on a Public Man
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Epitaph on a Public Man
Stranger if you desire to knowWhat End was his who lies below,
In far too many Chairs he sat
And died worn out by merely that.
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