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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Russell HillardLoines

1724 On a Magazine Sonnet

“SCORN not the sonnet,” though its strength be sapped,

Nor say malignant its inventor blundered;

The corpse that here in fourteen lines is wrapped

Had otherwise been covered with a hundred.