Fame, whose sweet voice whispers of phantom bliss to you proud mortals, and who seems so fair, is a mere echo, dream, dream lost in shade, at every wind-puff scattered and unmade. (Torquato Tasso)

Fame, whose sweet voice whispers of phantom bliss to you proud mortals, and who seems so fair, is a mere echo, dream, dream lost in shade, at every wind-puff scattered and unmade.

Torquato Tasso

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