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On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams

by Robert Burns, 1787

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.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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