To earn it by disdaining it
Is Fame’s consummate Fee —
He loves what spurns him —
Look behind — He is pursuing thee.
So let us gather — every Day —
The Aggregate of
Life’s Bouquet
Be Honor and not shame —
(Emily Dickinson)
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