Beside the Appian Way,
With lightly sprinkled earth
Above his glossy breast—
With stone, and due inscription,
Hic jacet—and the rest.
[“P. ABBOTT”]
(A Tradition of Westminster Abbey)
’Tis a saying that stolen sweets are sweeter,
And so with my hero it was, I think,
“P. Abbott,”—if Philip or Paul or Peter,