Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael

By Thomas Hardy

6/2/1840-1/11/1928


Here's one in whom Nature feared--faint at such vying -
Eclipse while he lived, and decease at his dying.

DayPoems Poem No. 1087
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