POPE’S EPITAPH ON HARCOURT.

To this sad shrine, whoe’er thou art! draw near;

Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear:

Who ne’er knew joy but friendship might divide,

Or gave his father grief but when he died.

The idea in the last line appears to be derived from an epitaph on an excellent wife, in the Roman catacombs:—

Conjugi piissimæ

de qua nihil aliud dolitus est

nisi mortem.

ON A SPANISH GIRL WHO DIED BROKEN-HEARTED.