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Paradiso: Canto XXV

If e'er it happen that the Poem Sacred,
To which both heaven and earth have set their hand,
So that it many a year hath made me lean,

O'ercome the cruelty that bars me out
From the fair sheepfold, where a lamb I slumbered,
An enemy to the wolves that war upon it,

With other voice forthwith, with other fleece
Poet will I return, and at my font
Baptismal will I take the laurel crown;

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These are original epigrams and parodies by Michael R. Burch ...

Brief Fling I
by Michael R. Burch

“Epigram”
means cram,
then scram!

Published by Brief Poems and The HyperTexts

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Brief Fling II
by Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram,
cram.
If you l...

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