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  Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stone: Here they lie had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands; Where from their pulpits, soil'd with dust, They preach, "In greatness is no trust." Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest royal'st seed, That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin: Here the bones of birth have cried, "Though gods they were, as men they died": Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings: Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in dust, once dead by fate. Dyce's Text.

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LAY a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow-branches bear; say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth: Upon my buried body lie lightly, gentle earth! Dyce's Text. 

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