Ingredients Of Greatness

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Title:     Ingredients Of Greatness
Author: John Kendrick Bangs [More Titles by Bangs]

THE style of man I’d like to be,
If I could have my way,
Would be a sort of pot-pourri
Of Poe and Thackeray;

Of Horace, Edison, and Lamb;
Of Keats and Washington,
Gérôme and blest Omar Khayyám,
And R. L. Stevenson;

Of Kipling and the Bard of Thrums,
And Bonaparte the great-
If I were these, I’d snap my thumbs
Derisively at Fate.

[The end]
John Kendrick Bangs's poem: Ingredients Of Greatness

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