Epitaph on a poet

I decided to go ahead and transcribe the "Epitaph on a poet" on page 73. I found the line breaks very interesting, so I did my best to break it up the way Spender did. I put the text in two colors to show how the date was written in a lighter blue than the rest of the epitaph. When I was typing out the date at the bottom, I couldn't decide whether to put "Jul", "July" or "Juy" as it is a sort of hybrid letter that looks like a very long "j". I settled on "l" because it was the closest I could get to the mark. I can only tell it is supposed to say "July" at all because of page 77 which has a similar character, just more well formed.


Epitaph on a poet. 

They said my life was wild ; but still I led it 

       (A haltered lion) to the very end : 

I had a word to say , and having said it 

         Turned back to Death again , my 

                                        only friend . 

                                                  Jul 26 

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