Declare I lived and died in peace,

If U should hear of my D CCC.

Erect an F-I-G of me,

And write this in my L-E-G.

Here lies a man of Letters, C,

Who shunned X S; and yet was E

Merry and YYY; a busy B,

Who never made an N M E.

From Cope’s Tobacco Plant. November 1871.

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