On an Anniversary
J.M. Synge
1871 to 1909
With Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen
We end Cervantes, Marot, Nashe, or Green:
Then Sixteen-thirteen till twoscore and nine,
Is Crashaw's niche, that honey-lipped divine.
And so when all my little work is done
They'll say I came in Eighteen-seventy-one,
And died in Dublin ... What year will they write
For my poor passage to the stall of night?
J.M. Synge's On an Anniversary
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