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 * IV.


 * EPITAPH.

TEP lightly on this narrow spot!
 * The broadest land that grows

Is not so ample as the breast These emerald seams enclose.

Step lofty; for this name is told As far as cannon dwell, Or flag subsist, or fame export Her deathless syllable.