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AN EPITAPH by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD

First Line: WHEN I AM GONE
Last Line: "BUT MARY-LIKE, ""SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD."
When I am gone,
Above me raise no lofty stone
Perfect in human handicraft,
No upward pointing gleaming shaft.
Say this of me, and I be content,
That in the Master's work my life was spent;
Say not that I was either great or good,
But Mary-like, "She hath done what she could."



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