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In Tabulam Eximii Pictoris B. Haydoni

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Title:     In Tabulam Eximii Pictoris B. Haydoni
Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb]

In tabulam eximii pictoris_ B. HAYDONI, _in qua Solymaei, adveniente Domino, palmas in via, prosternentes mira arte depinguntur

(1820)


Quid vult iste equitans? et quid oclit ista virorum
Palmifera ingens turba, et vox tremebunda Hosanna,
Hosanna Christo semper semperque canamus.

_Palma_ fuit _Senior_ pictor celeberrimus olim;
Sed palmam cedat, modo si foret ille superstes,
_Palma, Haydone_, tibi: tu palmas omnibus aufers.

Palma negata macrum, donataque reddit opimum.
Si simul incipiat cum fama increscere corpus,
Tu cito pinguesces, fies et, amicule, obesus.

Affectat lauros pictores atque poetae
Sin laurum invideant (sed quis tibi?) laurigerentes,
Pro lauro palma viridante tempora cingas.


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Charles Lamb's poem: In Tabulam Eximii Pictoris B. Haydoni

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