17 JUNE 1899, Page 16
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR —" J. D."
asks who composed Burton's epitaph. But was it not Burton himself ? None seem to have plagiarised Gray. 31;ght we not write?—
Known little. less unknown, Here shunbereth Who was to us Democritus : In life, in death,
Did Melancholy mark him for her own.
May I add one more ?—
.'ew knew him, fewer knew him not,— Detrutcritus, that in this spot
Tearless doth lie :— By her that wrought her lover's death New-dowered with undying breath,— Despondency.
Whittlesford Vicarage, Cambridge, June 10th.