First published in Morning Post, Oct. 11, 1802.
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When Surface talks of other people's worth
He has the weakest memory on earth!
And when his own good deeds he deigns to mention,
His memory still is no whit better grown;
But then he makes up for it, all will own,
By a prodigious talent of invention.
First published in Morning Post, Oct. 11, 1802.
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TO MY CANDLE
THE FAREWELL EPIGRAM
Good Candle, thou that with thy brother, Fire,
Art my best friend and comforter at night,
Just snuff'd, thou look'st as if thou didst desire
That I on thee an epigram should write.