A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
EPIGRAM.
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EPIGRAM.
From Martial.
O Alcimus, whom too severe a doomHas hurry'd to the grave in early bloom;
Be thine of Parian stone no threat'ning pile,
A labour frail that hardly lasts a while;
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And grass still verdant with my trickling woe:
These monuments, dear youth, my sorrows give,
Fair monuments that shall for ever live:
And when his latest thread the Fates shall ply,
Thus would thy Martial have his ashes lye.
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