外文诗歌类型050：Epitaph

Epitaph，碑文诗

写在墓碑上的短诗。当然，躺着的并不一定是人：

Epitaph
by Walter de la Mare

Here lies a most beautiful lady:
Light of step and heart was she;
I think she was the most beautiful lady
That ever was in the West Country.
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?

Walter de la Mare（1873-1956）