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CHRYSTOPHER ORCHERDSON ' by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE RESTES YE BODDIE OF ONE
Last Line: NOT OURES, BUT GODDES WAYE!
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;

Here restes ye boddie of one
Chrystopher Orcherdson.
Lyf he lived merrilie;
Nowe he doth deathlie lie:
All ye joye from his brighte face
Quencht in this bitter place.
With gratefull voice then saye,
Not oures, but Goddes waye!



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