THE genius of the Augustan age His head among Rome's ruins reared, And bursting with heroic rage, When literary Heron appeared, "Thou hast," he cried, "like him of old Who set the Ephesian dome on fire, by being scandalously bold, Attained the mark of thy desire; "And for traducing Virgil's name Shalt share his merited reward; A perpetuity of fame, That rots, and stinks, and is abhorred."
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