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INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED ON A SIMILIAR OCCASION by WILLIAM COWPER

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First Line: READER! BEHOLD A MONUMENT
Last Line: OF A GREAT BURIAL HERE.

(AT CHILLINGTON, THE SEAT OF T. GIFFARD, ESQ. 1791)


Reader! behold a monument
That asks no sigh or tear,
Though it perpetuate the event
Of a great burial here.



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