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William Wordsworth - A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester CathedralWilliam Wordsworth - A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral
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          "MISERRIMUS," and neither name nor date,           Prayer, text, or symbol, graven upon the stone;           Nought but that word assigned to the unknown,           That solitary word--to separate           From all, and cast a cloud around the fate           Of him who lies beneath. Most wretched one,           `Who` chose his epitaph?--Himself alone           Could thus have dared the grave to agitate,           And claim, among the dead, this awful crown;           Nor doubt that He marked also for his own                            Close to these cloistral steps a burial-place,           That every foot might fall with heavier tread,           Trampling upon his vileness. Stranger, pass           Softly!--To save the contrite, Jesus bled.
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