“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" (c. 1700)

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About Alexander Pope

1688 – 1744

English poet, author of "An Essay on Criticism" and "The Rape of the Lock".

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