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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

An Epitaph

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)

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 shall remember

This lady of the West Country?