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........Thou strivest nobly, When hearts of sterner stuff perhaps had sunk: And o'er thy fall, if it be so decreed, Good men will mourn, and brave men will shed tears. ................ ........Fame I look not for, But to sustain, in Heaven's all seeing eye, Before my fellow men, in mine own sight, With graceful virtue and becoming pride, The dignity and honour of a man, Thus station'd as I am, I will do all That man may do. Miss Baillie's Constantine Palæologus.