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280 INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG.

some proud son of man returns to earth,

Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth,

The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe

And storied urns record who rest below:

When all is done, upon the tomb is seen,

Not what he was, but what he should have been: