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1809–1894

FOR THE WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S

Oliver Wendell Holmes

AFAR he sleeps whose name is graven here, Where loving hearts his early doom deplore; Youth, promise, virtue, all that made him dear Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore.

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