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Epistle From Esopus To Maria (第1/2页)
epistle from esopus to maria from those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, where infamy with sad repentance dwells; where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, and deal from iron hands the spare repast; where truant 'prentices, yet young in sin, blush at the curious stranger peeping in; where strumpets, relics of the drunken roar, resolve to drink, nay, half, to whore, no more; where tiny thieves not destin'd yet to swing, beat hemp for others, riper for the string: from these dire ses my wretched lines i date, to tell maria her esopus' fate. “alas! i feel i am no actor here!” 'tis real hangmen real sces bear! prepare maria, for a horrid tale will turn thy very rouge to deadly pale; will make thy hair, tho' erst from gipsy poll'd, by barber woven, and by barber sold, though twisted smooth with harry's care, like hoary bristles to ered stare. the hero of the mimic se, no more i start in hamlet, in othello roar; or, haughty chieftain, 'mid the din of arms in highland bo, woo malvina's charms; while sans-culottes stoop up the mountain high, and steal from me maria's prying eye. blest highland bo! once my proudest dress, now prouder still, maria's temples press; i see her wave thy t plumes afar, and call eab to the wordy war: i see her face the first of ireland's sons, and even out-irish his hibernian bronze; the crafty el leaves the tartan'd lines, for other wars, where he a hero shines: the hopeful youth, in scottish senate bred, who owns a bushby's heart without the head, es 'mid a string of bs, to display that veni, vidi, vici, is his way: the shrinking bard adown the alley skulks, and dreads a meeting worse than woolwich hulks: though
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