On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, Together with his MSS. by the Mob, in the Month of June 1780.
So then - the Vandals of our isle,
Sworn foes to sense and law,
Have burnt to dust a nobler pile
Than ever Roman saw!
And Murray sighs o'er Pope and Swift,
And many a treasure more,
The well-judged purchase and the gift
That graced his lettered store.
Their
pages mangled, burnt, and torn,
The loss was
his alone;
But ages yet to come shall mourn
The burning of
his own.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 93 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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