Death & Dying
Substitute for an Epitaph
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Death & Dying
Kind Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here HAROLD lies--but where's his Epitaph?
If such you seek, try Westminster, and view
Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.
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Codex Note
Athens, 1810. First published, Lord Byron's Works, 1832, ix. 4.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “Substitute for an Epitaph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/212/.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “Substitute for an Epitaph.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/212/.
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