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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 CCLVII.

[In ten long columns of debate]

Καλα πεφανται.

In ten long columns of debate,
The morning paper shows,
What toilsome zeal for Britain's state,
Our senators disclose!

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Well as this looks, you must confess,
'Twere better ten to one,
Did three short lines at last express,
What good the rest have done!