Versos English Anonymous Epitaph Intended for My Own Tomb-stone

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Epitaph Intended for My Own Tomb-stone

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That Power supreme who taught me first to breathe, Now bids my clay augment the dust beneath: Enough to sense, that, form'd of human kind, I fill'd that space for which I was design'd; Enough to Nature, if I fill'd it well— This the great day of final doom shall tell.