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Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903.

Epitaphs

For One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey

HEROES and KINGS! your distance keep;

In peace let one poor Poet sleep,

Who never flatter’d folks like you:

Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.