Thread: Poem by Robert Conquest
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Unread 06-22-2006, 02:55 PM
Jim Hayes Jim Hayes is offline
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Lives of great men all remind us
we could make our lives sublime
if we didn't leave behind us
letters never burnt in time.

I haven't seen pelf in a poem since Walter Scott.
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