Substitute for an Epitaph

KIND Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here HAROLD lies--but where's his Epitaph?
If such you seek, try Westminster, and view
Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.

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Leading figure of the Romantic movement, celebrated for Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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