EPITAPHIUM EROTII

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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