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Why is that wanton gossip Fame	A
So dumb about this man's affairs	B
Why do we titter at his name	A
Who come to buy his curious wares	B
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Here is a shop of wonderment	C
From every land has come a prize	D
Rich spices from the Orient	E
And fruit that knew Italian skies	D
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And figs that ripened by the sea	F
In Smyrna nuts from hot Brazil	G
Strange pungent meats from Germany	F
And currants from a Grecian hill	G
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He is the lord of goodly things	H
That make the poor man's table gay	I
Yet of his worth no minstrel sings	H
And on his tomb there is no bay	I
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Perhaps he lives and dies unpraised	E
This trafficker in humble sweets	J
Because his little shops are raised	E
By thousands in the city streets	J
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Yet stars in greater numbers shine	K
And violets in millions grow	L
And they in many a golden line	K
Are sung as every child must know	L
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Perhaps Fame thinks his worried eyes	D
His wrinkled shrewd pathetic face	M
His shop and all he sells and buys	D
Are desperately commonplace	M
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Well it is true he has no sword	E
To dangle at his booted knees	N
He leans across a slab of board	E
And draws his knife and slices cheese	N
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He never heard of chivalry	F
He longs for no heroic times	O
He thinks of pickles olives tea	F
And dollars nickles cents and dimes	O
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His world has narrow walls it seems	P
By counters is his soul confined	E
His wares are all his hopes and dreams	P
They are the fabric of his mind	E
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Yet in a room above the store	Q
There is a woman and a child	E
Pattered just now across the floor	Q
The shopman looked at him and smiled	E
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For once he thrilled with high romance	R
And tuned to love his eager voice	S
Like any cavalier of France	R
He wooed the maiden of his choice	S
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And now deep in his weary heart	E
Are sacred flames that whitely burn	T
He has of Heaven's grace a part	E
Who loves who is beloved in turn	T
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And when the long day's work is done	U
How slow the leaden minutes ran	V
Home with his wife and little son	U
He is no huckster but a man	V
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And there are those who grasp his hand	E
Who drink with him and wish him well	W
O in no drear and lonely land	E
Shall he who honors friendship dwell	W
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And in his little shop who knows	X
What bitter games of war are played	E
Why daily on each corner grows	X
A foe to rob him of his trade	E
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He fights and for his fireside's sake	Y
He fights for clothing and for bread	E
The lances of his foemen make	Y
A steely halo round his head	E
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He decks his window artfully	F
He haggles over paltry sums	Z
In this strange field his war must be	F
And by such blows his triumph comes	Z
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What if no trumpet sounds to call	A2
His armed legions to his side	E
What if to no ancestral hall	A2
He comes in all a victor's pride	E
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The scene shall never fit the deed	E
Grotesquely wonders come to pass	B2
The fool shall mount an Arab steed	E
And Jesus ride upon an ass	B2
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This man has home and child and wife	C2
And battle set for every day	E
This man has God and love and life	C2
These stand all else shall pass away	E
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O Carpenter of Nazareth	D2
Whose mother was a village maid	E
Shall we Thy children blow our breath	E2
In scorn on any humble trade	E
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Have pity on our foolishness	F2
And give us eyes that we may see	F
Beneath the shopman's clumsy dress	G2
The splendor of humanity	F

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