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Read by The Reader
Epitaph
עפּיטאַף
Alter Esselin
אַלטער עסעלין
translated by Joseph Esselin
Careful! Tread softly stranger,
Don't disturb my slumber.
It took all my strength to get here,
And I'm nameless as a number.
But should you feel the itch to know
Who is it that lies below
Open your album and jot this down:
"Here lies a poet with a kingly crown
Who died of drinking his own sweet brew--
Honeyed song that held arsenic too."
