Epitaph [Beneath This Verdant Hillock Lies]

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Title:     Epitaph [Beneath This Verdant Hillock Lies]
Author: Jonathan Swift [More Titles by Swift]

Beneath this verdant hillock lies
Demar, the wealthy and the wise,
His heirs,[1] that he might safely rest,
Have put his carcass in a chest;
The very chest in which, they say,
His other self, his money, lay.
And, if his heirs continue kind
To that dear self he left behind,
I dare believe, that four in five
Will think his better self alive.

[Footnote 1:
"His heirs for winding sheet bestow'd
His money bags together sew'd
And that he might securely rest,"
Variation--From the Chetwode MS.--_W. E. B_.]

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Jonathan Swift's poem: Epitaph [Beneath This Verdant Hillock Lies]

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