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AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH,
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AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH,
AFTER THE DECEASE OF DR. BURNEY.
Thou Trojan Death! thou worse than Trojan foeTo English Greeks, the best of Greeks we know!
In three we boasted; three we had of late,
Rare Burney, matchless Porson, and the great
ΤΟΝ ΔΕΙΝΑ, props and pillars of our state;
Two thou hast ravish'd from us; and the land
Watches in anxious fear thy threat'ning hand.
Two thou hast ravish'd, but we can't resign a
ΤΟΝ ΔΕΙΝΑ yet awhile,—O spare ΤΟΝ ΔΕΙΝΑ.
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