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Epigram on the Death of Edward Forbes

By Sydney Dobell (1824–1874)

NATURE, a jealous mistress, laid him low.

He wooed and won her; and, by love made bold,

She showed him more than mortal man should know—

Then slew him lest her secret should be told.

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