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A DEAD SONG-WRITER by LUCILIUS

First Line: EUTYCHIDES IS DEAD, AND WHAT IS WORSE
Last Line: IS WHERE IN HELL, NOW HE'S IN HELL, TO GO.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
EUTYCHIDES is dead, and what is worse
(fly wretched shades!) he's coming with his verse.
And listen! they have burned upon his pyre
two tons of music, and a ton of lyre.
You're caught, poor ghosts. But what I want to know
is where in Hell, now he's in hell, to go.



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