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QUATRAIN: FAME by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

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First Line: OF ALL THE THOUSAND VERSES YOU HAVE WRIT
Last Line: NOR SHAME NOR FAME CAN SCALE A CHURCHYARD WALL.
Subject(s): FAME; POETRY & POETS; REPUTATION;
OF all the thousand verses you have writ,
If Time spare none, you will not care at all;
If Time spare one, you will not know of it:
Nor shame nor fame can scale a churchyard wall.



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