Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey.

ISAACUS NEWTONUS:
QUEM IMMORTALEM
TESTANTUR TEMPUS, NATURA, COELUM:
MORTALEM
HOC MARMOR FATETUR.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

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Leading English poet of the early 18th century, master of the heroic couplet. Famous for "The Rape of the Lock" and "An Essay on Man."

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