Glosing epitaph on fame and hollow monuments
The verse questions a glittering epitaph that mocks the living with a phony fame. It likens grand monuments to empty columns, raised to hold a roof now gone, and says they merely bear idle stone shafts that tell an endless lie and deride any passer-by.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ean Stedman
Daniel Baxter
Boston
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General Court
Josiah Stedman
Ayershire
Durham
Wells
Albany
Chatham
Lowall
Westboro
James Goold & Co
Goold
Robinson
Sullivan Place
Gentleman’s Magazine
Reddings& Co
Tuckerman
Grattan
Sigourney
Osgood
Brougham
Edith Fairlie
Martha Russell
Mrs Herry
Edith
Christendom
Herry
Dian
Shakspeare
Scott
Dickens
Willis
Arthur
Miss Leslie
Stephens
Bulwer
Eugene Aram
Grimalkin
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Mrs Corney
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England
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Mir Reford
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London
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Henshaw, Ward & CO
India Street
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Boston Courier
Boston Aulus
Boston Post
City of
Charles Calhoun
C. W. Storey, Jr
Chas. Calhoun
The
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Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company
Charles River
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Boston Atlas
Boston Posts
City of Boston
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W. Storey, Jr
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Thomas Wiley
NorFolk
Ann Wales
Joan H. Wales
Stoughton
Martin
Roxbury
S. Leland
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Cambridge
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Oakes
Amory Houghton
East Cambridge
Supreme Judicial Court
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William Bacon
R W. Bayley
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C. H. Blanchard
William M. Blake
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Osttsis
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Vanid
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Washington Street
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William Bogle
Summer Street
W. B
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Howland & Hinckley
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Islwosti
John Kenney
Commercial Street
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Court Square
Rantoul, Kimball & Dustin
Rupert Rantou, Jr
Danieel H. Dustin
Trull & Miller
Joan F. Truy
William D. Miller
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Blackstone Street
Coom
C. Young & Cog
Warren Bridge
D. F. Fleming
Charleston
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William H. Hill
Cornhill
H. Bailey & Coo
Court Street
Henry Bailey
Sam's O
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F. W. Pearson & CO
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Thayer and
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Lewis L. Bradbury
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Nathaniel M. Brapsury
Lewis L. Brapbsury
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Commonwealth OF
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John J. Devereux
Albion P. Bradburry
F. Pea — & Co F. _ PEARSON
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General Commission
James H. Kendall
Memory
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J. Tolland
Concord
N. H
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Cambridgeport
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Portsmouth
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Lewiston
Maine
Marshfield
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Enoch Hunting
Sutton
N.H
Manchester
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Boit
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Joseph Buckley & CO
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Pierpont
J. McIntire & CO
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Delaware
Naples
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New England
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Stone Martin
Fitch
Cony
Henry Bailey & Coo
Eld
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Hanover
Squire
H. A. Norris
State St.osts
A. Kimball
Pear Street
N A. Thompson & CO
Merchants Exchange
Scollay
Trémont Row
N. A. Thompson & CO
Howe, Leonard & CO
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Morocco
Russia
Napoleon
Duke of York
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London Board—Mill
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Oince
Perry
Banis
Tennessee River
Perryville
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Union Street
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Daniel Hersey
Exchange Street
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Orrick Conner
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Fulton Sta
Iet
William CC. Murdock
Fulton Street
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James Russellt Lowe
Rockwood
Literary Notices
Morton
Messrs Redding & Co
William B. English
John Augustus
New York Herald of
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Laborers’ Monthly Review
C. Lamson
Newburyport
Charles Lamson
Berkshire
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Chambers Street
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New Orleans
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