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EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2) by THOMAS CAREW

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE LADY MARY VILLIERS LIES
Last Line: MAY'ST FIND THY DARLING IN AN URN.
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; EPITAPHS; DEATH - BABIES;

The Lady Mary Villiers lies
Under this stone; with weeping eyes
The parents that first gave her birth,
And their sad friends, laid her in earth.
If any of them, reader, were
Known unto thee, shed a tear;
Or if thyself possess a gem
As dear to thee as this to them
Though a stranger to this place,
Bewail in theirs thy own hard case,
For thou, perhaps, at thy return
May'st find thy darling in an urn.




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