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Or if no basis bear my rising name,
But the fal'n ruins of another's fame:
Then teach me heav'n! to scorn the guilty bays;
Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise;
Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

 

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