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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

An Epitaph

By Walter de la Mare

HERE lies a most beautiful lady:

Light of step and heart was she;

I think she was the most beautiful lady

That ever was in the West Country.

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;

However rare—rare it be;

And when I crumble, who will remember

This lady of the West Country?