Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Surpasses it, we know, because
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But Heaven made both, impossible
Before another night.
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Attended by a single Hound
Its own identity.
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A Rat surrendered here
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And Fraud and Fear.
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