M. LEIGH

M. LEIGH(SOMERVILLE)TWO EPITAPHSON TWO LOVERSLove, when we walked on earth, your chastityWas all to you, your body all to me;Now the grave holds the flesh that parted us,And being nought, we shall united be.ON AN ARISTOCRAT DYING UNDER A DEMOCRACYLiving, your constitution levelled me;Dead, all are equal in their six-foot graves:But God counts not by heads; in His regardOne freeborn man is worth a host of slaves.

M. LEIGH(SOMERVILLE)

M. LEIGH(SOMERVILLE)

ON TWO LOVERS

Love, when we walked on earth, your chastityWas all to you, your body all to me;Now the grave holds the flesh that parted us,And being nought, we shall united be.

Love, when we walked on earth, your chastityWas all to you, your body all to me;Now the grave holds the flesh that parted us,And being nought, we shall united be.

Love, when we walked on earth, your chastityWas all to you, your body all to me;Now the grave holds the flesh that parted us,And being nought, we shall united be.

Love, when we walked on earth, your chastity

Was all to you, your body all to me;

Now the grave holds the flesh that parted us,

And being nought, we shall united be.

ON AN ARISTOCRAT DYING UNDER A DEMOCRACY

Living, your constitution levelled me;Dead, all are equal in their six-foot graves:But God counts not by heads; in His regardOne freeborn man is worth a host of slaves.

Living, your constitution levelled me;Dead, all are equal in their six-foot graves:But God counts not by heads; in His regardOne freeborn man is worth a host of slaves.

Living, your constitution levelled me;Dead, all are equal in their six-foot graves:But God counts not by heads; in His regardOne freeborn man is worth a host of slaves.

Living, your constitution levelled me;

Dead, all are equal in their six-foot graves:

But God counts not by heads; in His regard

One freeborn man is worth a host of slaves.


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