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EPIGRAM CXXVII.

[Hail! great reformer of men's shoes!]

CORRIGE SODES.

Hail! great reformer of men's shoes!
Thou, Fashion! who with silken noose
So daintily dost provide 'em!
Were Wisdom's self, ten times as wise,
She could add nothing to shoe-ties,—
Save petticoats to hide 'em!