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The Idylliums of Theocritus

Translated from the Greek. With notes critical and explanatory. By Francis Fawkes
Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)

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X. On a Monument erected to the Muses.

Here Xenocles hath rais'd this marble shrine,
Skill'd in sweet music, to the tuneful Nine:
He from his art acquires immortal fame,
And grateful owns the fountain whence it came.
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