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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.