Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
s! should the branded character be mine!
whose verse in manhood's pride sublimely flows,
yet vilest reptiles in their begging prose.
mark, how their lofty indepe spirit
soars on the spurning wing of injured merit!
seek not the proofs in private life to find
pity the best of words should be but wind!
so, to heaven's gates the rk's shrill song asds,
but grovelling on the earth the carol ends.
in all the cm'rous cry of starving want,
they dun benevoleh shameless front;
oblige them, patroheir tinsel ys—
they persecute you all your future days!
ere
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