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[To be remember'd thus is fame]
To be remember'd thus is fame,
And in the first degree;
And did the few, like her the same,
The press might rest for me.
And in the first degree;
And did the few, like her the same,
The press might rest for me.
So Homer in the memory stor'd
Of many a Greecian belle,
Was once preserv'd—a richer hoard,
But never lodg'd so well!
Of many a Greecian belle,
Was once preserv'd—a richer hoard,
But never lodg'd so well!
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