MORTUARY.

ANDREW LANGUAGE--no, LANG!--who the classics is pat in,

Suggests to our writers, as test of their "style,"

Just to turn their equivocal prose into Latin,

As DRYDEN did. Truly the plan makes one smile!

Reviewers find Novelists' nonsense much weary 'em.

Writers of twaddle

Take DRYDEN a model--

Turn your books into some great "_dead_ language"--and _bury_ 'em!

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