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BREVITY by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS

First Line: WHO DISTICHS WRITES TO BREVITY DOES LOOK
Last Line: BUT WHERE'S THE BREVITY, IF 'T FILLS A BOOK?

Poem Sources:

DAPHNE INTO LAUREL; TRANSLATIONS OF CLASSICAL POETRY FROM CHAUCER TOTHE PRESENT.
  STONEMAN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1982)
 



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