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Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917.

Epitaph for Peter Stuyvesant, 1682

Henricus Selyns

HERE lieth Stuyvesant—stir not too deep the sand!—

He who commander was of all New Netherland.

Unto the foe perforce he gave the country o’er;

If grief and sorrow ever burden hearts, his heart

Did die a thousand deaths and did endure a smart

Insufferable. At first too rich; at last too poor.