 | The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe |  |
LUCUS A NON.
You'll oft find in books, rather ancient than recent,A gap in the page marked with “cetera desunt,”
By which you may commonly take it for granted
The passage is wanting without being wanted;
And may borrow, besides, a significant hint
That desunt means simply not decent to print!
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