In vain to live from age to age <br />While modern bards endeavour, <br />I write my name in Patty's page, <br />And gain my point for ever.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-written-for-insertion-in-a-collection-of-handwritings-and-signatures-made-by-miss-patty/
