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FAME. 
LAUREL. 
Rhododendron. 
Language — FAME. 
Ques. What shall I do, lest life in silence pass ? 
And if it do, 
Ans. 
And never prompt the bray of noisy brass, 
Wdiat need’st thou rue ? 
Remember aye the ocean deeps are mute, 
The shallows roar: 
Worth is the ocean ; fame is but the bruit 
Along the shore. 
What shall I do to be forever known ? 
Ans. Thy duty ever. 
Ques. This did full many who yet sleep unknown. 
Am. O, never, never. 
Think’st thou, perchance, that they remain urn 
known 
Whom thou know’st not ? 
Ry angel trumps in heaven their praise is blown : 
Divine their lot. 
Quo.. What shall I do to have eternal life? 
Ans. Discharge aright 
The simple dues with which the day is rife — 
Yea, with thy might. 
Ere perfect sphere of action thou devise 
Will life be fled ; 
While he who ever acts as conscience cries 
Shall live, though dead. PoEMS 0F vodt.i. 
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