Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
nture on the name;
those cut-throat bandits ihs of fame:
bloody dissectors, worse than ten monroes;
he hacks to teach, they mao expose:
his heart by causeless wanton malice wrung,
by blockheads' daring into madness stung;
his well-won bays, than life itself more dear,
by mists torn, who ne'er one sprig must wear;
foil'd, bleeding, tortur'd in th' unequal strife,
the hapless poet flounders on thro' life:
till, fled each hope that once his bosom fir'd,
and fled each muse that glorious onspir'd,
low sunk in squalid, unprotected age,
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