The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Epitaph for William Pitt

1405098The Works of Lord Byron — Epitaph for William PittGeorge Gordon Byron

EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT.

With Death doomed to grapple,
Beneath this cold slab, he
Who lied in the Chapel
Now lies in the Abbey.

January 2, 1820.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 295.]