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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

thomas paine-epitaph to a pet bird

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/343
When  eight years of age, the following epitaph to his pet bird:

Here lies the body of John Crow,
Who once was high but now is low:
Ye brother Crows take warning all,
For as you rise, so must you fall.

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