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EPITAPH: THE EMPEROR FREDERICK OF OUR TIME by GEORGE MEREDITH

Poet Analysis

First Line: WITH ALFRED AND ST. LOUIS HE DOTH WIN
Last Line: THE EVER-FLOWERING COMMON HEART FOR HOME.
Subject(s): DEATH; EPITAPHS; DEAD, THE;

WITH Alfred and St. Louis he doth win
Grander than crowned head's mortuary dome:
His gentle heroic manhood enters in
The ever-flowering common heart for home.



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