72. TO LAURELS

A funeral stone

Or verse, I covet none;

But only crave

Of you that I may have

A sacred laurel springing from my grave:

Which being seen

Blest with perpetual green,

May grow to be

Not so much call'd a tree,

As the eternal monument of me.

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