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ON RECEIVING HEYNE'S VIRGIL FROM HAYLEY by WILLIAM COWPER

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SHOULD HAVE DEEMED IT ONCE AN EFFORT VAIN
Last Line: SINCE I RECEIVED HIM AS A GIFT FROM THEE.
Subject(s): TRANSLATING & INTERPRETING;
I SHOULD have deemed it once an effort vain
To sweeten more sweet Maro's matchless strain,
But from that error now behold me free,
Since I received him as a gift from thee.



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