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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 CII.

['Twixt those Poets of old, and our Poets of late]

IN NOVA FERT ANIMUS.

'Twixt those Poets of old, and our Poets of late,
One perpetual distinction holds true:—
The New in a twinkling are all out of date;
The Old will forever be new!—