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TO FAME by JOHN FREEMAN

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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