Classic Poem

FROM THE FRENCH OF M. SELIS .

Here lies a man who never married.
He to the world, alas! was known
By folly and by vice alone.
Ah! on the tomb to which his Sire was carried,
Well had it been could all have read
This short memorial of the dead,
Here lies a man who never married!

Within this grave a Batchelor lies,
By follies and by vices only known!
Ah! when in death his Father clos'd his eyes,
Why could there not be written on his stone,
Within this grave a Batchelor lies!