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Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten / That Shakespeare should be quite / And therefore got on a Committee / With several chaps out of the city.
And Shorter and Sir Herbert Tree, / Lord Rothschild and Lord Rosebery / And F. C. G. and Comyns Carr, / Two dukes and a dramatic star, / Also a clergyman now dead; / And while the vain world careless sped / Unheeding the heroic name -- / The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame / Still sat unconquered in a ring, / Remembering him like anything.