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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM LXXV.

[Tho' proportion so often in nature takes place]

PAR PARI.

Tho' proportion so often in nature takes place,
There's a general exception in one common case;
'Tis a feature of instinct, no power can efface:
For the greatest of objects when action we try,
And the greatest of subjects, where speech we apply,
Is the smallest of letters—viz.—I, by't self, I.