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Matthew Prior - On A Picture Of Seneca Dying In A Bath, By Jordain
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While cruel Nero only drains
The moral Spaniard`s ebbing veins,
By study worn, and slack with age,
How dull, how thoughtless is his rage!
Heighten`d revenge he should have took,
He should have burnt his tutor`s book;
And long have reign`s supreme in vice;
One noble wretch can only rise;
`Tis he whose fury shall deface
The Stoic`s Image in this piece,
For, while unhurt, divine Jordain,
Thy work and Seneca`s remain,
He still has body, still has soul,
And lives and speaks restored and whole.
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