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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO FAME, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me be self-deceived
Last Line: Sets the dews shaking and the thorn-twig bends.
Subject(s): Fame; Introspection; Self; Reputation
First Line: Let me be self-deceived
Last Line: Sets the dews shaking and the thorn-twig bends.
Subject(s): Fame; Introspection; Self; Reputation
LET me be self-deceived.
—Like the lean bird, crouched on the black-thorn's breast,
That sings unnoticed and unnoticed ends,
Contented and ungrieved
Though her fond, brief unrest
Sets the dews shaking and the thorn-twig bends.
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