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Stop, Christian passer-by! -- Stop, child of God, / And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod / A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he. -- / O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.; / That he who many a year with toil of breath / Found death in life, may here find life in death! / Mercy for praise -- to be forgiven for fame / He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same!