Living
O Immortality of Fame!
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
O immortality of fame!
What art thou? even Shakespeare's name
Beaches not Shakespeare in his grave.
The wise, the virtuous, and the brave,
Resume ere long their common clay,
And worms are longer lived than they.
At last some gilded letters show
What those were call'd who lie below.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “O Immortality of Fame!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/926/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “O Immortality of Fame!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/926/.
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