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EPIGRAMS
I
I can't believeThat God was not too clever
To fancy Adam might have lived for ever;
For God already had created Eve.
II
The question of life's origin to beg,Science derives all creatures from an egg,
Turning the ancient problem of who made it
Into the modern riddle of who laid it.
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III
Though you were married in a Church, don't blameThe altar, if it did not light a flame;
Though Heaven's insurance cover Cupid's arson,
If there's no fire at all, don't damn the parson.
IV
That minor ages minor poets breedIs certain, without reasons analytic,
'Tis more surprising that they don't succeed
In ever bringing forth a minor critic.
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