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18 EPITAPH ON A BELOVED FRIEND.

[Plato's Epitaph (Epig. Græe., Jacobs, 1826, p, 309), quoted by Diog. Laertius.]

, Friend! for ever lov'd, for ever dear!

What fruitless tears have bathed thy honour'd bier!