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First Line: To be remembered thus is fame
Last Line: But never lodged so well.
Subject(s): Fame; Reputation


To be remembered thus is Fame,
And in the first degree;
And did the few like her the same,
The press might sleep for me.

So Homer, in the memory stored
Of many a Grecian belle,
Was once preserved--a richer hoard,
But never lodged so well.





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