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DEATH AND FAME by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

First Line: I HAVE PLANTED A FLOWER ON THE PEAK
Last Line: AND FAME IS WHERE THEY ARE.
Subject(s): DEATH; FAME; DEAD, THE; REPUTATION;
I HAVE planted a flower on the peak;
My soul has cast its star.
Star and peak! and dawn's a-streak!
And my tomb is where they are.

Though never a climber scale the height
Where my love exhales its fire, --
Though only the heavenly side of night
Shakes with my soul's desire, --

There, on the peak, a life's perfume!
There, cresting the dark, a star!
There, light that breaks upon a tomb! --
And fame is where they are.



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