Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God,
And read, with gentle breast. Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem’d he–
O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.–
That he who many a year with toil of breath
Found death in life, may here find life in death :
Mercy for praise–to be forgiven for fame–
He ask’d, and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same.
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The End
And that’s the End of the Poem
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