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AN EPITAPH ON MRS. EL: Y by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)

Poet Analysis

First Line: UNDERNEATH THIS STONE THERE LIES
Last Line: IN A STONE HER WORTH. FAREWELL!
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;

UNDERNEATH this stone there lies
More of beauty than are eyes;
Or to read that she is gone,
Or alive to gaze upon.

She in so much fairness clad,
To each grace a virtue had;
All her goodness cannot be
Cut in marble. Memory
Would be useless, ere we tell
In a stone her worth. Farewell!



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