They have Chiseled on my stone the words: br 'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him br That nature might stand up and say to all the world, br This was a man.' br Those who knew me smile br As they read this empty rhetoric. br My epitaph should have been: br 'Life was not gentle to him, br And the elements so mixed in him br That he made warfare on life, br In the which he was slain.