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William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.

An Epitaph: ‘Like other things, this marble must decay’

William Pierce

Intended for the monument of Major-General Greene

LIKE other things, this marble must decay,

The cipher’d characters shall fade away,

And naught but ruin mark this sacred spot,

Where Greene’s interr’d—perhaps the place forgot;

But time, unmeasured, shall preserve his name,

Through distant ages shall roll on his fame,

And in the heart of every good man, raise

A lasting monument of matchless praise.