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.

About Alexander Pope

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."