The Tragedy of King Richard the Third • Paragraph 387
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“No tawdry, ’scutcheons hang around thy tomb, No hired mourners wave the sabled plume, No statues rise to mark the sacred spot, No pealing organ swells the solemn note. A hurried grave thy soldiers’ hands prepare; Thy soldiers’ hands the mournful burthen bear; The vaulted sky to earth’s extremest verge Thy canopy; the cannon’s roar thy dirge! Affections sorrows dew thy lowly bier, And weeping Valour sanctifies the tear.”