ON ELPHINSTONE'S TRANSLATION OF MARTIAL’S EPIGRAMS_POEMS AND SONGS BY ROBERT BURNS

ON ELPHINSTONE'S TRANSLATION OF MARTIAL’S EPIGRAMS

O THOU whom Poetry abhors,

Whom Prose has turnèd out of doors,

Heard'st thou yon groan?—proceed no further,

'Twas laurel'd Martial calling “murther.”