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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MAN'S PRAYER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not crave that deathless fame
Last Line: "too wondrous to be true!"
Subject(s): Love
First Line: I do not crave that deathless fame
Last Line: "too wondrous to be true!"
Subject(s): Love
I DO not crave that deathless fame
That is the valiant soldier's part;
I only wish to write my name
Within a woman's heart;
To make my love so perfect seem
The world shall say, my glad days through,
"That life he lived -- it was a dream
Too wondrous to be true!"
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