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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 19 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

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For on that other side I sey Of that hill which northward ley, How it was written full of names Of folke, that had afore great fames, Of olde time, and yet they were As fresh as men had written hem there The self day, right or that houre That I upon hem gan to poure: But well I wiste what it made; It was conserved with the shade (All the writing that I sye) Of the castle that stoode on high, And stood eke in so cold a place, That heate might it not deface.—Pope.

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