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Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

DE SEIPSO MANDATUM AUCTORIS.

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Hoc ubicunque cadet jaceat (modo sede sacrata) Magno nec luctu dignum neque funere corpus. Nec tumuli sit cura mei, neque carmina posco Quæ poterunt nomenque meum famamque perennem In tumulo servare; quid autem fama juvabit Posthuma, terrarum quamvis impleverit orbem? Spiritus alta petens cœli de vertice terras Despiciet, curasque hominum ridebit inanes.

THE END.

LONDON: PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

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