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An Autograph

O’€™er the wet sands an insect crept
Ages ere man on earth was known’€”
And patient Time, while Nature slept,
The slender tracing turned to stone.
 
‘€™T was the first autograph: and ours?
Prithee, how much of prose or song,
In league with the creative powers,
Shall '€™scape Oblivion’€™s broom so long.
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