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Matthew Prior (Мэтью Прайор)


On a Fart - Let in the House of Commons


Reader, I was born, and cried;
I crack'd, I smelt, and so I died.
Like Julius Caesar's was my death,
Who in the senate lost his breath.
Much alike entomb'd does lie
The noble Romulus and I:
And when I died, like Flora fair,
I left the commonwealth my heir.



Matthew Prior's other poems:
  1. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
  2. A Song (In vain you tell your parting lover)
  3. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
  4. A Lover's Anger
  5. If Wine and Music Have the Power


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