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IL.781.033
4 Jun 1781:11,12,13,41 (3/157)
A POETICAL EPISTLE. &c.
--Honest praise
Oft nobly sway;
Ingenuous youth:
But from the coward and the lying mouth
Praise is reproach. Eternal God alone
For mortals fixes that sublime award.
. . . [6 more lines, signed] Akenside's Ode.
While many a servile muse her succour lends
To flatter tyrants, or a tyrant's friends;
While thousands slaughter'd at ambition's shrine,
Are made a plea to court the tuneful nine:
. . . [12 lines, praise to George Washington]
Shall my untutor'd muse begin the song,
Which future bards in rapture shall prolong;
. . . [170 lines]
Such as, great Milton, tun'd thy sacred lyre,
Or that sweet bard's, who sung the man that bore
"His course to Latium from the Trojan shore.!"
. . . [19 more lines]
(Remainder in our next.)
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