Nor you, ye vain, impute to such the fault,

If mem’ry o’er his deeds no trophies raise,

Where, thro’ the long drawn hall and fretted vault,

The well-fee’d lawyer swells his note of praise.

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For thee, who mindful of each agent’s deeds,

Dost in these lines their artful ways relate

If chance, or lonely contemplation leads

Some kindred spirit to enquire thy fate;

Haply some hoary headed sage may say,—