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THE SPANIARD by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: LAID IN THIS ENGLISH GROUND
Last Line: TO CRY HIS SINS SO FAR FROM HOME!
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
Laid in this English ground
A Spaniard slumbers sound.
Well might the tender weep
To think how he doth sleep --
Strangers on either hand --
So far from his own land.
O! when the last Trump blow,
May Christ ordain that so
This friendless one arise
Under his native skies.
How bleak to wake, how dread a doom,
To cry his sins so far from home!



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