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Poems of James Graham: Marquis of Montrose

... With introduction and notes by J. L. Weir ... and a preface by the Rt. Hon. Lord Tweedsmuir

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I Lines written in his copy of Lucan.
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Lines written in his copy of Lucan.

As Macedo his Homer, I'll thee still,
Lucan, esteem as my most precious gem;
And, though my fortune second not my will,
That I may witness to the world the same,
Yet, if she would but smile even so on me,
My mind desires as his, and soars as hie.