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Mallock, W. H. (1849-1923)
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HUMAN LIFE
Like
smoke I vanish, though I burn like flame;
I flicker in the gusts of wrong and right,
A shining frailty in the guise of might.
Before, a nothing—and behind, a name.
Verses by W. H. Mallock