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The TEMPLE of FAME.
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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