Robert Burns


Epigram on Elphinstone’s Translation 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.

1787




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