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Let him stand who will on the giddy height Of the palace-top in his pride of place! In a humbler home may my heart delight, Where my couch is low, and my pillow,—peace. Be it known to few how my life flows on, As I silent sail on its noiseless tide! When its days and years are expired and gone, Let my record be that,—I lived and died! For sadly he meets the stroke of death, (At the ends of earth though his name be known,) Who laments, when yielding his final breath, That he’s known to all but himself alone.
Let him stand who will on the giddy height Of the palace-top in his pride of place! In a humbler home may my heart delight, Where my couch is low, and my pillow,—peace. Be it known to few how my life flows on, As I silent sail on its noiseless tide! When its days and years are expired and gone, Let my record be that,—I lived and died! For sadly he meets the stroke of death, (At the ends of earth though his name be known,) Who laments, when yielding his final breath, That he’s known to all but himself alone.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mordaunt Barnard (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 347 · printed citation: Mordaunt Barnard · subject: KNOWLEDGE
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