A SERVING MAN'S EPITAPH

A slave--oh yes, a slave!

But in a freeman's grave.

By thee, when work was done,

Timanthes, foster-son,

By thee whom I obeyed,

My master, I was laid.

Live long, from trouble free;

But if thou com'st to me,

Paying to age thy debt,

Thine am I, master, yet.

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