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EPIGRAM ON A PICTURE OF QUEEN CAROLINE by ALEXANDER POPE

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First Line: ALAS! WHAT ROOM FOR FLATTRY, OR FOR PRIDE!
Last Line: THIS SINGLE CRAYON, MADAM, SAINTS THE QUEEN.
Subject(s): CAROLINE OF ANSBACH. QUEEN OF ENGLAND;

Alas! what room for Flattry, or for Pride!
She's dead! -- but thus she lookd the hour she dy'd,
Peace, blubbring Bishop! peace thou flattring Dean!
This single Crayon, Madam, saints the Queen.



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