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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Epitaph from Simonides

Anonymous

WHERE is Timarchus gone?

His father’s hands were round him,

And when he breathed his life away,

The joy of youth had crowned him.

Old man! thou wilt not forget

Thy lost one, when thine eye

Gazeth on the glowing cheek

Of hope and piety.