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Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.


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Tis vain for present fame to wish—
Our persons first must be forgotten;
For poets are like stinking fish—
They never shine until they're rotten.


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Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-shop appears,
As the red waves of wretchedness swell;
How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years—
The horrible Light-house of Hell!


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McDonald Clarke

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Born: 1798
Died: 1842 (aged 44)
Bio: McDonald Clarke was a poet of some fame in New York City in the early part of the 19th century. He was an influence on, and eulogized by Walt Whitman; but widely known as "the mad poet of Broadway", a label with which he identified.

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