A handsome monument betrayed by dicey versification and bad typesetting.
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Gone! Gone.
An epigram on the monument of Charles Dixon Caton requires some comment.
The artist, the grave, and the sonnet
Figure 1. Augustus Goodyear Heaton. Frontispiece photo from Fancies in Thoughts and Verse (Boston 1904). Public domain. Digitized by Google, in the internet archive. Augustus Goodyear Heaton, a.k.a. Augustus George Heaton, had his middle name legally changed at the age of 78 in 1922. Born in Philadelphia in 1844, he passed much of his career …
