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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON FAME, by PHILIP AYRES Poet's Biography
First Line: The fame we covet is a wand'ring air
Last Line: And with a thousand tongues, a hydra live.
Subject(s): Fame; Reputation
First Line: The fame we covet is a wand'ring air
Last Line: And with a thousand tongues, a hydra live.
Subject(s): Fame; Reputation
THE Fame we covet is a wand'ring air,
Which against Silence wages constant war;
For to be mute does her so much displease,
That true, or false, she seldom holds her peace;
She but a while can in a place remain,
'Tis running up and down, does her sustain;
Tho' dead she seem, she quickly can revive,
And with a thousand tongues, a Hydra live.
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