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First Line: Few chairs of dignity in england now
Last Line: If a man held, he should be proud thereof.
Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets


FEW chairs of dignity in England now
The wise man covets,—not the ducal gold
Of Bedford or Northumberland, or to hold
Portfolios of statecraft and thus grow
One of the Families; some few allow
The impossible ambition, being not sold
Into entire contempt but aureoled
With famous tales and spiritual show:
As, for the name of the city and our love,
The Mayoralty of London; then, the See
Of Dubric, Anselm, Temple; last, the chair,
By Dryden fashioned and Wordsworth made more fair,
Of the English Laureate; any of these three
If a man held, he should be proud thereof.





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