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Poems, translated and original

Note 3 — THE SEPULCHRES.[1]

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Page 17. To scoop from it his own triumphal bier.

Nelson is said to have carried about with him, sometime before his death, a coffin made from the main mast of the ship Oriente; that when he had finished his career in this world, he might be buried in one of his trophies.

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