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First Line: Posterity will ne'er survey
Last Line: Stop, traveler, and piss
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Hate; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount


Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this;
Here lies the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveler, and piss






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