[BNP/E3, 79 – 42]

“Documents of Mental Decadence”

Epitaph.

V

Here lieth Alexander Search

Whom God and man left in the lurch

And nature mocked with pain and woe

He believed not in state or church

Nor in God, woman, man or love

Nor earth below, nor heav’n above.

His experience did to this abut:

{…} and love is rut

Nothing is anywhere sincere

Save sorrow, hatred, lust and fear

And even these sometimes do lock

Worse things in the ill they mock

Ah, round {…} with me {…} thought

Men are happy, and I am not!

Yet not even all science in this †

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over

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[42^v]

He died at twenty odd

This was his dying[1] sentiment;

Accurst be Nature, Man and God.

Alexander Search.

Banter

Banter

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Banter

Babington.

Babington.

[1] dying ^/last\