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John Conington on Christmas

1825–1869 England

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None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.

The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869)

Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?

The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)

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