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William Cowper - On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica
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Oh fond attempt to give a deathless lot,
To names ignoble, born to be forgot!
In vain recorded in historic page,
They court the notice of a future age,
Those twinkling tiny lustres of the land
Drop one by one from fame`s neglecting hand,
Lethean gulfs receive them as they fall,
And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.
     So when a child, as playful children use,
Has burnt to tinder a stale last year`s news,
The flame extinct, he views the roving fire,
There goes my lady, and there goes the squire;
There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark,
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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