Poem A Day

Epitaph. on James Craggs, Esq. in Westminster Abbey.

by Alexander Pope

JACOBUS CRAGGS REGI MAGNAE BRITANNIA A SECRETIS ET CONSILIIS

SANCTIORIBUS, PRINCIPIS PARITER AC POPULI AMOR ET DELICIAE: VIXIT

TITULIS ET INVIDIA MAJOR ANNOS, HEU PAUCOS, XXXV. OB. FEB. XVI. MDCCXX.

Statesman, yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere,

In action faithful, and in honour clear!

Who broke no promise, served no private end,

Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend;

Ennobled by himself, by all approved,

Praised, wept, and honour'd by the Muse he loved.

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