Cassius Hueffer


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This poem was included in the original 1915 edition.

THEY have chiseled on my stone the words:
"His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man."
Those who knew me smile
As they read this empty rhetoric.
My epitaph should have been:
"Life was not gentle to him,
And the elements so mixed in him
That he made warfare on life
In the which he was slain."
While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,
Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph
Graven by a fool!
 

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Sarah Shalaby , about 1 year ago

This is a very nice one,indeed. I've always thought that the dead would almost never agree to what their epitaphs said.

 

Dan , about 1 year ago

Contradiction of our thoughts and feelings is inevitable, yet not something to be feared.


It is better to be contradicted as an individual, than to be accepted as a clone of our neighbors.

 
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