Quotation by Samuel Wesley

See him, when starved to death and turned to dust,
Presented with a monumental bust!
The poet's fate is here in emblem shown:
He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Samuel Wesley (1691–1739), British poet. On the Setting Up of Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey (l. 3–6). . .

Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
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