AN IRISH EPIGRAM ON THE SAME

While with the fustian of thy book,
  The witty ancient you enrobe,
You make the graceful Horace look
  As pitiful as Tom M’Lobe.
Ye Muses, guard your sacred mount,
  And Helicon, for if this log
Should stumble once into the fount,
  He’ll make it muddy as a bog.

 

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