"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simp… - Frederick Locker-Lampson

"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

Frederick Locker-Lampson

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Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters and poet.

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Alternative Names: Frederick Locker

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Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,—
I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny,
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You were an exceedingly small pickaninny,
Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.

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And almost as delightful.

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