<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537765" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh fond attempt to give a deathless lot,<br>To names ignoble, born to be forgot!<br>In vain recorded in historic page,<br>They court the notice of a future age,<br>Those twinkling tiny lustres of the land<br>Drop one by one from fame's neglecting hand,<br>Lethean gulfs receive them as they fall,<br>And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.<br>So when a child, as playful children use,<br>Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news,<br>The flame extinct, he views the roving fire,<br>There goes my lady, and there goes the squire;<br>There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark,<br>And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537765" data-title="On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica de William Cowper" data-description="Oh fond attempt to give a deathless lot, To names ignoble, born to be forgot! In vain recorded in historic page, They court the notice of a future age, Those twinkling tiny lustres of the land Drop one by one from fame's neglecting hand, Lethean g..."></div> </div> </div>

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