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TO A POET ON HIS EPITAPH FOR THE FALLEN by JOHN DRINKWATER

Poet Analysis

First Line: SPLENDIDLY DYING, YET THEIR FAME
Last Line: TO SAVE THEIR SPLENDOUR IN A RHYME.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
SPLENDIDLY dying, yet their fame
Had fallen to imperious time,
But for the living lips that came
To save their splendour in a rhyme.



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