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Gourgas or Lee, 



Clark or Darby? 



They 're a great endeavor 



To be something forever; 



Blank tablets of stone, 



Where a traveller might groan. 



And in one sentence 



Grave all that is known; 



Which another might read. 



In his extreme need. 



I know one or two 



Lines that would do. 



Literature that might stand 



All over the land, 



Which a man could remember 



Till next December, 



And read again in the spring, 



After the thawing. 



If with fancy unfurled 



You leave your abode, 

 You may go round the world 



By the Old Marlborough Road. 



Excursions, 215. 



