So summer is gone Leaving no epitaph

And that's a good epitaph for any man.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read,

Not long since I read his epitaph in the old Lincoln burying ground, a little on one side, near the unmarked graves of some British grenadiers who fell in the retreat from Concord where he is styled Sippio

And as they came out the other side, and I limped off to piece myself together again, there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone.