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