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EPIGRAMS.
Our new Reformation abhors the “Dogmatical”
As unmeet for an age so enlarged, and exotic:—
Why stop at the Credo, O seers unfanatical?
Don't you think the Commandments a little despotic?
As unmeet for an age so enlarged, and exotic:—
Why stop at the Credo, O seers unfanatical?
Don't you think the Commandments a little despotic?
With Clio's aid old Homer sang, 'tis known:—
When Batho sings, the merit's all his own.
When Batho sings, the merit's all his own.
Inconstant thou! There ne'er was any
Till now so constant—to so many!
Till now so constant—to so many!
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