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On An Anniversary

[After reading the dates in a book of Lyrics.]

    With Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen
    We end Cervantes, Marot, Nashe or Green:
    The Sixteen-thirteen till two score and nine,
    Is Crashaw's niche, that honey-lipped divine.
    And so when all my little work is done
    They'll say I came in Eighteen-seventy-one,
    And died in Dublin…. What year will they write
   For my poor passage to the stall of Night?

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