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TO PROFESSOR JEBB,

With the Following Poem.

Fair things are slow to fade away,
Bear witness you, that yesterday^[1]
   From out the Ghost of Pindar in you
Roll'd an Olympian; and they say^[2]

That here the torpid mummy wheat
Of Egypt bore a grain as sweet
   As that which gilds the glebe of England,
Sunn’d with a summer of milder heat.

1. In Bologna.
2. They say, for the fact is doubtful.