“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Epitaph for himself (1821)
“Words writ in waters.”
Revenge for Honour, Act V, scene ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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