The poems and translations of Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702) excluding Seneca and Manilius Introduced and Annotated by F. J. Van Beeck |
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On a Marble Statue of Nero, which falling kill'd a Child.
This Statue, bloudy Nero does present;To Tyrants a sad Document.
Though Marble, on his basis yet so fast
He stood not, but he fell at last.
And seems as when he liv'd, as cruell still,
He could not fall, but he must kill.
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