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The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Epitaph for Himself

THE BODY

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

(LIKE THE COVER OF AN OLD BOOK,

ITS CONTENTS TORN OUT,

AND STRIPT OF ITS LETTERING AND GILDING),

LIES HERE FOOD FOR WORMS;

YET THE WORK ITSELF SHALL NOT BE LOST,

FOR IT WILL (AS HE BELIEVED) APPEAR ONCE MORE

IN A NEW

AND MORE BEAUTIFUL EDITION

CORRECTED AND AMENDED

BY

THE AUTHOR.


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