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Robert Burns (1759–1796).  Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics.  1909–14.
 
163. On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams
 
 
O THOU whom Poetry abhors,
Whom Prose has turnèd out of doors,
Heard’st thou yon groan?—proceed no further,
’Twas laurel’d Martial calling murther.
 

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