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Sharon, ambitious of immortal shame, / Fame's dead-wall daubed with his illustrious name -- / Served in the Senate, for our sins, his time, / Each word a folly and each vote a crime; / Law for our governance well skilled to make / By knowledge gained in study how to break; / Yet still by the presiding eye ignored, / Which only sought him when too loud he snored.