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On Elphinstnes Translatin Of Martials

    on elphinstoranslation of martial's epigrams

    o thou whom poetry abhors,

    whom prose has turned out of doors,

    heard'st thou yon groan?—proceed no further,

    'twas laurel'd martial calling murther.