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EPIGRAM LXXXIX.
[In due regard to modern taste]
IN NOVA FERT ANIMUS.
In due regard to modern taste,
Tom Dupe, the village squire,
Along a barn, in prospect plac'd,
Three scraps of paint-smear'd windows trac'd,
And half a Gothic spire.—
Tom Dupe, the village squire,
Along a barn, in prospect plac'd,
Three scraps of paint-smear'd windows trac'd,
And half a Gothic spire.—
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Thus in antiques by fashion's lore,
The sham thing hides the true one;
The barn, top, bottom, sides, and floor,
Was an old Ruin heretofore—
And now 'tis made a new One!
The sham thing hides the true one;
The barn, top, bottom, sides, and floor,
Was an old Ruin heretofore—
And now 'tis made a new One!
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