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TO MRS. THROCKMORTON, ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSCRIPT OF HORACE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maria, could horace have guessed
Last Line: Nothing ever was written so well.
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting


MARIA, could Horace have guessed
What honour awaited his ode
To his own little volume addressed,
The honour which you have bestowed,
Who have traced it in characters here,
So elegant, even, and neat;
He had laughed at the critical sneer,
Which he seems to have trembled to meet.

And sneer, if you please, he had said,
Hereafter a nymph shall arise,
Who shall give me, when you are all dead,
The glory your malice denies;
Shall dignity give to my lay,
Although but a mere bagatelle;
And even a poet shall say,
Nothing ever was written so well.





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