Death & Dying
Epitaphium Erotii
From New Poems (1918)
Death & Dying
HERE lies Erotion, whom at six years old
Fate pilfered. Stranger (when I too am cold,
Who shall succeed me in my rural field),
To this small spirit annual honours yield!
Bright be thy hearth, hale be thy babes, I crave
And this, in thy green farm, the only grave.
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MLA
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Epitaphium Erotii.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/273/.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Epitaphium Erotii.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/273/.
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