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EPIGRAM by ROYALL TYLER

First Line: ONCE, WHEN A STAGE JOVE
Last Line: THEN, DAMME, SNOW BROWN.

ONCE, when a stage Jove,
In a fury of vapour,
Was snowing on Lear
A storm of white paper;
On a sudden, he stopt --
While Hodgkinson cries,
Snow, honest friend, snow,
More snow from the skies.
The white paper's out,
Cried Jove, with a frown;
What, all the white out!
Then, damme, snow brown.



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