The Universal Epitaph

John Clare

1793 to 1864

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But ask your soul, if it can say,
You who my sad confession view;
And oh! condemn me not, I pray,
My frailties and my faults to hide;
I liv'd in sin—in sin I died.
My faults and failings all are known—
That I'm a viler man than you.
No flattering praises daub my stone,