An Epistle in Verse, occasioned by the death of James Boswell, Esquire of Auchinleck -- Addressed to the Rev. Dr. T. D. By the Rev. Samuel Martin |
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 | An Epistle in Verse, occasioned by the death of James Boswell, Esquire |  |
Men are not form'd alike, nor all alike
Dress'd up and polish'd, like a gun or pike:
Parents and teachers, school-fellows and friends,
Fashion, the times, new principles, new ends,
Form that a blunderbuss, which well might be,
In other management, a smart fusil;
Form that a spear, which else, with ruder work,
Had been a boat-hook, or a plain pitch-fork.
Dress'd up and polish'd, like a gun or pike:
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Fashion, the times, new principles, new ends,
Form that a blunderbuss, which well might be,
In other management, a smart fusil;
Form that a spear, which else, with ruder work,
Had been a boat-hook, or a plain pitch-fork.
| An Epistle in Verse, occasioned by the death of James Boswell, Esquire | |