Cassius Hueffer + 

They have chiseled on my stone the words: + 

“His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him + 

That nature might stand up and say to all the world, + 

This was a man.” + 

Those who knew me smile + 

As they read this empty rhetoric. + 

My epitaph should have been: + 

“Life was not gentle to him, + 

And the elements so mixed in him + 

That he made warfare on life + 

In the which he was slain.” + 

While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues, + 

Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph + 

Graven by a fool! + 