How many heroes never had a name!
How many that have had one have none now!
Renown like Fortune is a fickle dame,
Nor lights her halo up on ev'ry brow.
And yet who is there would not feel her flame!
E'en I myself sometimes would, I avow:
And should not like to see Oblivion's finger
One day snuff out what might around me linger.