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Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets

By R. E. Egerton-Warburton

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ON SEEING ON THE SAME BOOK-SHELF Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen.

See British bards and British cut-throats made
Alike immortal by a Johnson's aid!
The neck with hemp, the brow with laurel bound,
The pen, the pistol, equally renown'd!
Fame's temple reaching by a different track,
Dryden on wings or Turpin on a hack!