Here Rests His Head Upon The Lap Of Earth, A Youth To Fortune And To Fame Unknow

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Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown:
Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- The Epitaph

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