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EPITAPH ON SIR FRANCIS VERE by EDWARD HERBERT

First Line: IF THOU APPEAR
Last Line: THIS WORLD FOR HIM MADE PARADISE AGAIN.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS; VERE, SIR FRANCIS (1560-1609);
READER,
If thou appear
Before this tomb, attention give,
And do not fear,
Unless it be to live:
For dead is great Sir Francis Vere.

Of whom this might be said: should God ordain
One to destroy all sinners whom that one
Redeem'd not there, that so he might atone
His chosen flock, and take from earth that stain
That spots it still, he worthy were alone
To finish it, and have, when they were gone,
This world for him made Paradise again.



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