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EPITAPH ON DR. FRANCIS ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: YES, WE HAVE LIV'D - ONE PANG, AND THEN WE PART!
Last Line: -- HE SAID, AND DY'D.

(WHO DIED IN EXILE AT PARIS, IN 1732)

DIALOGUE

SHE

Yes, we have liv'd -- one pang, and then we part!
May Heav'n, dear Father! now, have all thy Heart.
Yet ah! how once we lov'd, remember still,
Till you are Dust like me.

HE

Dear Shade! I will:
Then mix this Dust with thine -- O spotless Ghost!
O more than Fortune, Friends, or Country lost!
Is there on earth one Care, one Wish beside?
Yes--Save my Country, Heav'n,
-- He said, and dy'd.




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