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 CXCI.
['Tis strange to see, how, more or less]
QUOCUNQUE MODO REM.
'Tis strange to see, how, more or less,
The same propensity to dress
Reigns paramount in human race:
An English smart his breast be-frills;
Some beast the savage hunter kills,
His person with the spoils to grace.
The same propensity to dress
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An English smart his breast be-frills;
Some beast the savage hunter kills,
His person with the spoils to grace.
Contrasts there are in the extreme:
And yet such contrasts as they seem,
Still tow'rd one central point they go:
Candor this only difference knows,
Our fop above his chitterling shows;
The Hottentot wears his below!
And yet such contrasts as they seem,
Still tow'rd one central point they go:
Candor this only difference knows,
Our fop above his chitterling shows;
The Hottentot wears his below!
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