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J. Cesaris Epigram.

A Thracian lad on Ice-bound Heber playes,
The glassie Pavement with his waight decayes.
Whilsts with his lower parts the river fled,
The meeting Ice cut off his tender head,
Which having found, the Son-less mother urnd,
Those to be drownd were born, this to be burnd.