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Rh Condemned to drudge, the meanest of the mean,

And furbish falsehoods for a magazine,

Devotes to scandal his congenial mind;

Himself a living libel on mankind.

Oh! dark asylum of a Vandal race!

At once the boast of learning, and disgrace!

So lost to Phœbus, that nor Hodgson's verse

Can make thee better, nor poor Hewson's worse.

But where fair Isis rolls her purer wave,

The partial Muse delighted loves to lave;

On her green banks a greener wreath she wove,