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Rh Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass

The bard who soars to elegize an ass:

So well the subject suits his noble mind,

He brays, the Laureate of the long-eared kind.

Oh! wonder-working ! Monk, or Bard,

Who fain would make Parnassus a church-yard!