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Epigram After Having Seen Several Bad Paintings Of The Death Of Sir John Moore

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Cease, daubers! profane not the theme, I implore ye!     But leave him, O leave him alone with his glory!          *        *        *        *        *     Man's owl-eyed reason Popish Priests assert     Can't safely bear the gospel's heavenly light;     Therefore, with kindest zeal, they do their best     To keep their flocks in unillumined night.          *        *        *        *        *     'The brokers of the Stock-Exchange     Are nicknamed bears and bulls; how strange!     What reason, Sir, to call them so?'     Ma'am, see their manners, you will know.

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