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So they would raise your monument, / Old vagabond of lovely earth? / Another answer without words / To Humdrum's, "What are poets worth? "
Not much we gave you when alive, / Whom now we lavishly deplore, -- / A little bread, a little wine, / A little caporal -- no more.