"Mere by-blows are the world and we, And time within eternity A sheer anachronism."
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"Queen Elizabeth's Day", from Fleet Street Eclogues (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1893] 1895) p. 198
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John Davidson (poet)
John Davidson (April 11, 1857 β March 23, 1909) was a Scottish journalist, playwright, fiction-writer and translator, but is best remembered as a poet.
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