Citation - Massachusetts Spy-Boston: 1773.02.25

MS-B.773.008
25 Feb 1773:41 (3/112)
At the same place [Ezekial Russell, next the Cornfield,
Union Street] may be had, if applied for immediately.
The Elegant Poem, which the committee of the town of Boston
had voted unanimously to be published . . .  [39 lines of
puff, then the following excerpt:]
  Barbarian ravage hung the pagan car,
  The spoils of empires, and the waste of war;
  In fields of death did Caesars laurels bloom,
  And sham'd the triumphs of imperial Rome;
  . . . [10 more lines]