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A Child’s Trick

Translation of William Cranston Lawton

I OFTEN touched my eyes, I recollect,

With oil, in boyhood, if I did not wish

To learn by heart the dying Cato’s words;

Which my daft master loudly would applaud,

And with a glow of pride my father heard

As I recited to his gathered friends.