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What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand?

James Bramston

So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,
While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.

James Bramston

What's not devoured by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand?

James Bramston

James Bramston

James Bramston

Born: 1694

Died: 1744 (aged 50)

Bio: James Bramston, satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics, in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste, in imitation of Alexander Pope.

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