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EPITAPH ON AN OBSCURE PERSON by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: STRANGER, THESE ASHES WERE A MAN
Last Line: HE COULD ASSIMILATE.
Subject(s): IGNORANCE; DULLNESS; STUPDITY;

STRANGER, these ashes were a Man
Crushed with a grievous weight.
He had acquired more ignorance than
He could assimilate.



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