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EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF by EDWARD HERBERT

First Line: THE MONUMENT WHICH THOU BEHOLDEST HERE
Last Line: WITH HIS CREATOR, PEACE, JOY, TRUTH AND LOVE.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS; SELF;
The monument which thou beholdest here
Presents Edward, Lord Herbert to thy sight,
A man who was so free from either hope or fear
To have or lose this ordinary light,
That when to elements his body turned were,
He knew that as those elements would fight,
So his immortal soul should find above,
With his Creator, peace, joy, truth and love.



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