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EPITAPH ON MR. ELIJAH FENTON, AT EASTHAMSTED IN BERKS by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THIS MODEST STONE WHAT FEW VAIN MARBLES CAN
Last Line: THANK'D HEAV'N THAT HE HAD LIV'D, AND THAT HE DY'D.
This modest Stone what few vain Marbles can
May truly say, here lies an honest Man.
A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate,
Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the Proud and Great.
Foe to loud Praise, and Friend to learned Ease,
Content with Science in the Vale of Peace.
Calmly he look'd on either Life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear;
From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd,
Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.



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