“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”

— Alexander Pope

"Ode on Solitude", st. 5 (c. 1700).

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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

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