Epigram After Having Seen Several Bad Paintings Of The Death Of Sir John Moore

Cease, daubers! profane not the theme, I implore ye! But leave him, O leave him alone with his glory! *        *        *        *        * Man's owl-eyed reason—Popish Priests assert— Can't safely bear the gospel's heavenly light; Therefore, with kindest zeal, they do their best To keep their flocks in unillumined night. *        *        *        *        * 'The brokers of the Stock-Exchange Are nicknamed bears and bulls;—how strange! What reason, Sir, to call them so?' Ma'am, see their manners, you will know.