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TO REV. WALTER BAGOT; EXCUSE FOR DELAY IN WRITING TO HIM by WILLIAM COWPER

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT IS A MAXIM OF MUCH WEIGHT
Last Line: HAD NEED DO NOTHING MORE.
Subject(s): TRANSLATING & INTERPRETING;
IT is a maxim of much weight,
Worth conning o'er and o'er,
He who has Homer to translate,
Had need do nothing more.



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