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102. On James Gordon Bennett:—

James Gordon Bennett,
aged seventy-two,
founder of the New York Herald.

103. Political Epitaph. Here we have another version of No. 55:

Here lies Ned Hyde,
Because he died;
If it had been his sister,
We should have missed her;
But we would rather
It had been his father;
Or, for the good of the nation,
The whole generation.

104. On Copernicus, St. Anne’s Church, Cracow:—

Sta, sol, ne moveare.
(Stand, O sun, move not.)

105. From Melrose Church:—

Earth builds on earth castles and towers;
Earth says to earth, all shall be ours;
Earth walks on earth all clad in gold;
Earth goes to earth sooner than earth wold.

106. On Dr. Franklin, by himself:—

The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book,
its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies
here, food for worms; yet the work itself will not be lost, for it will (as
he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition,
corrected and amended by the Author.