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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1215 |
| AUTHOR: | Horatio Alger (1834–99) |
| QUOTATION: | I wrote my name upon the sand, And trusted it would stand for aye; But, soon, alas! the refluent sea Had washed my feeble lines away. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | HORATIO ALGER, JR., “Carving a Name,” lines 1–4, Alger Street: The Poetry of Horatio Alger, Jr., ed. Gilbert K. Westgard II, p. 53 (1964). |
| SUBJECTS: | Mortality |
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