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THE MAN OF ONE POEM by LAURA BELL EVERETT

First Line: I LIKE IT WELL TO TURN ASIDE
Last Line: WITHIN A HALF A HUNDRED LINES.
Subject(s): DYER, SIR EDWARD (1540-1607);
(Sir Edward Dyer, Author of @3My Mind to Me a
Kingdom Is@1.) (1550-1607)

I like it well to turn aside
From names that time can never blot
To those the world hear, dignified
With word of praise, and then forgot.

One poem, forty lines or ten,
Should rank the singer as a sage.
Why smile? Slow-moving though the pen
He lived a life and left a page.

Ask but his name and date; the rest
Irradiant through his poem shines --
His life, or long or short, compressed
Within a half a hundred lines.



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