Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus

He who, sublime, in epic numbers roll'd,
And he who struck the softer lyre of Love,
By Death's _unequal_hand alike controul'd,
Fit comrades in Elysian regions move!

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

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