On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer.

A poem by William Cowper

Cowper had sinn’d with some excuse,
If, bound in rhyming tethers,
He had committed this abuse
Of changing ewes for wethers;[1]


But, male for female is a trope,
Or rather bold misnomer,
That would have startled even Pope,
When he translated Homer.

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