English poem

On A Slanderer

From yonder tomb of recent date, There comes a strange mephitic blast. Here lies--Ha! Backbite, you at last-- 'Tis he indeed: and sure as fate, They buried him in overhaste-- Into the earth he has been cast, And in this grave, Before the man had breathed his last.

1799. First published from an MS. in 1893. An expansion of [Epigram] No. 12.

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