And cramped, and he often drew
His themes from most unlikely
Sources. He’s been called gnomic.
The last verses are homely.
There’s nothing much more hopeful
In the human world than that
He died an utter failure.
It nullifies all failure
To know it’s irrelevant
To any future fortune
Either way of the phrases
He built as subcontractor
To a mind that never paid.
Don’t ask for vindication;
Be thrilled to remain unsure.
It’s not always nice to be
Known. It is to never know.
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