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OMNES VANITAS.

  Alas for ambition's possessor!    Alas for the famous and proud!  The Isle of Manhattan's best dresser    Is wearing a hand-me-down shroud.  The world has forgotten his glory;    The wagoner sings on his wain,  And Chauncey Depew tells a story,    And jackasses laugh in the lane.