| Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903. | | | | Epitaphs | | On Mr. Elijah Fenton |
| | At Easthamstead, Berks, 1729
THIS modest stone, what few vain marbles can, | |
| May truly say, Here lies an Honest Man; | |
| A Poet bless’d beyond the Poet’s fate, | |
| Whom Heav’n kept sacred from the proud and great; | |
| Foe to loud Praise, and friend to learned Ease, | 5 |
| Content with Science in the vale of peace. | |
| Calmly he look’d on either life, and here | |
| Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; | |
| From Nature’s temp’rate feast rose satisfied, | |
| Thank’d Heav’n that he had lived, and that he died. | 10 | | | |
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