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EHOLD! a proof of Irish sense; Here Irish wit is seen! When nothing's left, that's worth defence, We build a magazine.

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ON HIS BIRTHDAY.

HILE I the godlike men of old, In admiration wrapt, behold; Rever'd antiquity explore, And turn the long-lived volumes o'er; Where Cato, Plutarch, Flaccus, shine, ln every excellence divine: I grieve