Epigrams

ORIGINAL

An Epigram-why! what is that?Something that's sharp and never flat; A metrical, well-rounded bit

Surcharged with fire of keenest wit,

And which, like fly in amber caught,

Forever lives a shining thought.

-Ed. R. Taylor

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ORIGINAL

Were Doctor Lane as good in every line
As in the carving of our form divine,
His epigrams, we must agree, would cope
With best of those of Dryden or of Pope,
And even Bierce would be compelled to yield
To witty medico the conquered field.

ORIGINAL

-Ed. R. Taylor

Here's John Hittell, so strong on facts,

He nothing cares for jingling snacks,
And as for making epigram,

He could not turn one worth a

clam.

-Ed. R. Taylor