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How might one then begin to thank a scribe
Hast taught us how to speak, to think, to love,
To know ourselves, to fear, to feast, t'imbibe,
To laugh, to woo, to rhyme, to die, to move?
How could we 'gin to list the laughs, the tears,
For Prosper's magic, Titus' blood, Lear's
grief, For Falstaff, Juliet's fire,
Othello's fears, For Thisbe's dying zeal,
for Hero's thief? We cannot. So,
then this I hope worthwhile, That one small man so many years gone past,
Can write one modest verse
in yet your style To celebrate all
thou hast made to last. That after all the wonder thou hast wrought,
We thank you here in form that thou hast taught.