The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Epitaph for William Pitt
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EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT.
With Death doomed to grapple,
Beneath this cold slab, he
Who lied in the Chapel
Now lies in the Abbey.
January 2, 1820.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 295.]