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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poet's Biography
First Line: Stone ox! If we were hungry you would satisfy but little us
Last Line: You never were a calf; though carv'd, you were not carv'd to victual us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Stone ox! If we were hungry you would satisfy but little us
Last Line: You never were a calf; though carv'd, you were not carv'd to victual us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
An ox carved in stone, and placed over the door of the public slaughter-
house at Nuremberg, bears the following inscription:—
Omnia habent ortus suaque incrementa, sed ecce, Quem cernis nunquam bos
fuit hic vitulus.
STONE ox! if we were hungry you would satisfy but little us:
You never were a calf; though carv'd, you were not carv'd to victual us.
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THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS
NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH
ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON
ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL
PAST AND PRESENT by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON