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First Line: Here lyes what had not birth, nor shape, nor fame
Last Line: Ex nihilo nihil fit.
Subject(s): Smyth, James Moore


Here lyes what had nor Birth, nor Shape, nor Fame;
No Gentleman! no man! no-thing! no name!
For Jammie ne'er grew James; and what they call
More, shrunk to Smith -- and Smith's no name at all.
Yet dye thou can'st not, Phantom, oddly fated:
For how can no-thing be annihilated?
Ex nihilo nihil fit.





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