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By Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa
For thirty years a soldier,
Twenty years a kleft was I;
Now death o'ertakes and seizes me,
'Tis finished, I must die.
And be ye sure ye make my grave
Of ample height and large,
That in it I may stand upright,
Artist: Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa
Year: 1850