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EPITAPH

 As a boy, reserved and naughty;
As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty;
As a man, for action inclined;
As a greybeard, fickle in mind.
-- Upon thy grave will people read: This was a very man, indeed! 1815.
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Poem by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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