[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 80]

30-7-08

Caeser, Shakespeare, Troppman, Erostratus,

These are, oh Fame, thy many famous and †,

Not only this, for there is fame of days,

And fame that doth remain.[1]

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For strength some, some for skill, oh, it dismays.

The mind to think have many a nothing does

Help not fame. For some grave luminous

Upon the moment’s darkness not us

And the darkness displaced stood small again

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Over

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But be it this or that, greater or less

All is too much akin to emptiness[2].

 
[1] doth remain /centuries of distant us.\
[2] emptiness /nothingness\